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New parrot species

Postby Pajarita » Fri Aug 14, 2015 10:18 am

Well, not really 'new' but they just figured out that they are not a subspecies but a species in their own right. And, as an interesting note, it was only in 2005 that this species was 'split' up so, as you can see, we are not done 'discovering' stuff about parrots!

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0 ... lain-sight

and these are links for you to learn a bit about them:

http://www.africaskyblue.org/Cape_Parrot.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_parrot
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