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Broad-tailed Lories
Lorius
Lorius is a genus of lorikeet in the parrot family Psittaculidae. The genus contains six species that are distributed from the Moluccas in Indonesia through New Guinea to the Solomon Islands. They have characteristic red plumage with varying amounts of blue (and in some yellow and white), green wings, and in all but one species a black crown. The bills are orange and the feet are grey.
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 6 known species

Black-capped Lory
speciesLorius lory

Chattering Lory
speciesLorius garrulus

Yellow-bibbed Lory
speciesLorius chlorocercus

Purple-bellied Lory
speciesLorius hypoinochrous

Purple-naped Lory
speciesLorius domicella
White-naped Lory
speciesLorius albidinucha
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 18944.