Kuhl's lorikeet, also called the Rimitara lorikeet, Kuhl's lory, manu 'ura or kura, is a species of lorikeet in the family Psittaculidae. It is one of several species of Vini lorikeets found in island
Ātiu, also known as ʻEnuamanu, is an island of the Cook Islands archipelago, lying in the central-southern Pacific Ocean. Part of the Nga-pu-Toru, it is 214 km northeast of Rarotonga. The population o
Kuhl's lorikeet
…was protected by a tapu or taboo by Queen Tamaeva V of Rimatara around 1900. In 2007 a population was reintroduced to the black-rat-free island of Atiu in the Cook Islands by the Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust and numerous conservation bodies, including the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation…