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Photo of Finsch's Pygmy-Parrot (Micropsitta finschii)

Finsch's Pygmy-Parrot

Micropsitta finschii

Finsch's pygmy parrot (Micropsitta finschii), also known as the emerald pygmy parrot

and green pygmy parrot, is a member of parrot family Psittacidae inhabiting tropical rainforest regions of islands in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the Bismarck Archipelago.

The common name and scientific name commemorate the German ethnographer, naturalist, and colonial explorer Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (8 August 1839 - 31 January 1917, Braunschweig).

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