The black-billed hanging parrot (''Loriculus bonapartei'') is a

hanging parrot Hanging parrots are birds in the genus ''Loriculus'', a group of small parrots from tropical southern Asia. About long, hanging parrots are mostly green plumaged and short-tailed. Often head coloring helps to identify individual species. They a ...

native to the Sulu Archipelago of the

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Description

It is 14 cm long. The front of the crown of the black-billed hanging parrot is red, turning to orange and yellow on the back of the crown. The

tail The tail is the section at the rear end of certain kinds of animals’ bodies; in general, the term refers to a distinct, flexible appendage to the torso. It is the part of the body that corresponds roughly to the sacrum and coccyx in mammals, r ...

is green above and blue below. Most of its feathers are bright green, its

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is black and its irises are brown.''Loriculus bonapartei''
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References

Loriculus Endemic birds of the Philippines Fauna of Sulu Sulu Archipelago Birds described in 1856 Taxa named by Charles de Souancé {{parrot-stub