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Filey Bird Garden and Animal Park

Jabiru96 said:
Kakariki

(these words are to lengthen the reply to fit the word requirements)
you could have written "red-crowned kakariki" (although this one has a hint of hybridisation about it)
 
you could have written "red-crowned kakariki" (although this one has a hint of hybridisation about it)

I am not sure of the other names or (if there are) species for/of this bird, I only remember this name being used in private aviculture alot rather than the name that you have said.
 
Most people in the UK woiuld call it the Red-fronted Kakariki. That is how it is labelled at Filey too.
 
I hate the names red-fronted and yellow-fronted -- it is the crown that is red or yellow, not the frons. In contrast, the orange-fronted kakariki does have an orange frons.
 
That is true. I often think it is odd that so many species of Parrot are termed something "fronted" when, as you say, the colour in question is on their crowns.
 

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