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Brown-headed Parrot Poicephalus cryptoxanthus Scientific name definitions

Nigel Collar and Peter F. D. Boesman
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated May 24, 2017

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Distribution of the Brown-headed Parrot - Range Map
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Distribution of the Brown-headed Parrot

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Recommended Citation

Collar, N. and P. F. D. Boesman (2020). Brown-headed Parrot (Poicephalus cryptoxanthus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.brhpar2.01
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