The greater vasa parrot is one of two species of vasa parrot, the other being the lesser vasa parrot. The greater vasa parrot can be found throughout Madagascar and the Comoros.
Image: Coracopsis vasa Madagascar 8
Image: Greater vasa parrot (Coracopsis vasa drouardi) female, breeding plumage
Close up of head
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The vasa parrots that form the genus Coracopsis are four species of parrot in the Old World parrot family Psittaculidae that are endemic to Madagascar and other islands in the western Indian Ocean. Some taxonomists formerly placed the species in the genus in Mascarinus, but this is now thought to be based on the results of a heavily flawed, later-debunked genetic study.
Vasa parrot
Image: Coracopsis vasa Madagascar 8
Image: Kleiner Vasa Papagei
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