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Red-breasted pygmy parrot

Red-breasted pygmy parrot is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Red-breasted pygmy parrot rather than just read about it. In short: The red-breasted pygmy parrot (Micropsitta bruijnii) is a species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae. Its natural habitat is the boreal forests, subtropical or tropical dry forests, and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests of the Maluku Islands and Melanesia.

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Reference excerpt

The red-breasted pygmy parrot (Micropsitta bruijnii) is a species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae. Its natural habitat is the boreal forests, subtropical or tropical dry forests, and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests of the Maluku Islands and Melanesia. As their name suggests, the pygmy parrots are the smallest genus of all parrots, with distribution confined to islands off South-east Asia. This particular species is found at higher altitudes than other pygmy parrots, and uses trees rather than arboreal termite nests as breeding sites. They have jerky movements, rather reminiscent of nuthatches (Sitta species), and cling close to the bark as they search for lichens growing in the trees, which form the majority of their diet. Red-breasted pygmy parrots are only 8 cm (3 in) in length. The global population size has not been quantified, but the species is reported to be common to uncommon due to deforestation and habitat lost on this limited range. It is best to study these birds in their natural habitat because they do not thrive in captivity. The specific name bruijnii commemorates the Dutch plume merchant Antonie Augustus Bruijn.

Subspecies The species has five subspecies:

M. b. bruijnii - mountains of New Guinea M. b. buruensis - Buru M. b. necopinata - New Britain and New Ireland M. b. pileata - Seram M. b. rosea - Bougainville, Guadalcanal and Kolambangara in the Solomon Islands

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Red-breasted pygmy parrot ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Red-breasted pygmy parrot

In research: Red-breasted pygmy parrot appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Red-breasted pygmy parrot in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Red-breasted pygmy parrot is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Birds described in 1875, Birds of Melanesia, Birds of the Maluku Islands, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Red-breasted pygmy parrot outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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