Endangered
Purple-naped Lory
Lorius domicella
Purple-naped Lory is a parrot in the family Psittacidae (order Psittaciformes) — Lorius domicella, recorded as Endangered and tied to Indonesia.
Appearance
It has green wings, blue thighs, and a variable approximately transverse yellow band across the chest. It has an orange beak, dark-grey eyerings, and orange-red irises. Juveniles have a brown beak, grey-white eyerings, brown irises, a wider yellow band across the chest, and a more extensive purple patch on the back of neck.
The purple-naped lory is 28 cm (11 in) long.
Range and habitat
It is forest-dwelling endemic to the islands of Seram, Ambon, and perhaps also Haruku and Saparua, South Maluku, Indonesia.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
It is considered endangered, the main threat being from trapping for the cage-bird trade.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Purple-naped Lory is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Purple-naped Lory, Wikidata item Q998563. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
