Paradise parrot
| Paradise parrot | |
|---|---|
| Live individual photographed by the entrance to its nest, Burnett River, Queensland, 1922 | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Psittaciformes |
| Family: | Psittaculidae |
| Genus: | Psephotellus |
| Species: | †P. pulcherrimus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Psephotellus pulcherrimus (Gould, 1845) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Psephotus pulcherrimus | |
The paradise parrot (Psephotellus pulcherrimus) was a colourful medium-sized parrot native to the grassy woodlands extending across the Queensland and New South Wales border area of eastern Australia. Once moderately common within its fairly restricted range, the last live bird was seen in 1927. Extensive and sustained searches in the years since then have failed to produce any reliable evidence of it, and it is the only Australian parrot recorded as disappearing and presumed extinct.