blue lorikeet

The Blue Lorikeet (Kurāmo‘o) of Aitutaki

The Blue Lorikeet (Kurāmo‘o) of Aitutaki

Gerald McCormack, CINHT

Adult on Banana leaf and flower – Cook Islands, Aitutaki – Joseph Brider 2021-10

The Blue Lorikeet (Vini peruviana ) is a native bird of French Polynesia, formerly existing on about twenty islands in the Society Islands (including Tahiti) and the northern Tuamotu atolls. In recent years it has been lost from Tahiti and all the main Society Islands, surviving only on three remote atolls to the northwest (especially Bellinghausen/Motu One) and on three or four atolls of the Tuamotus. Continue reading →

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