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Reischek's parakeet feeding chicks

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Reischek's parakeet feeding chicks

Reischek's parakeet lives only on the Antipodes Islands. Like the Antipodes parakeet, the Reischek’s parakeet has adapted to a subantarctic habitat.

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Christina Troup, Small forest birds – Parakeets, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/12505/reischeks-parakeet-feeding-chicks (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Christina Troup, published 1 March 2009, updated 1 August 2023.