Black-fronted Parakeet

Tahiti - run parakeet

The Tahiti - run Parakeet ( Cyanoramphus zealandicus ) is an extinct species of parrot that was endemic to Tahiti. The bird is known by three individuals here that have been collected on James Cook's voyage in 1773. Today, still two of the three animals in Liverpool and the third in Tring. There are two other stocks. One was hit by Marolle 1844 and is now in Paris, another now in Perpignan, the Amadis discovered in 1842. It is assumed that the Tahiti run parakeet as his relative of the extinct Dusky headed Parakeet run, were forest birds. Its extinction probably came into existence through his habitat loss, hunting and persecution. Of course, the introduction of other species may have contributed to it.