Lori with diadem

The lori with diadem ( Charmosyna diadema ), or loriquet with diadem , or loriquet calédonien , is a psittacidé endemic of New Caledonia.

History of the species

This bird was known science for the first time by the two specimens (females) captured in 1859 in a place not established of New Caledonia. These two birds are the cotypes species, which was described by Jules Verreaux (1807-1873) and Marc Athanase Parfait Eyelet Of the Walls (1804-1878) in 1860. One of these two specimens, preserved at the national Natural history museum of natural history of Paris, constitutes the only specimen currently existing in the world. Since its discovery, the bird was re-examined with certainty only once in 1913 in the area of the mount Ignambi (a collected individual, but not preserved). Possible observations were made in the years 1950 and in 1976, and a specific research of the species in 1998 did not make it possible to detect it. However, knowing that the other known species of the kind Charmosyna are particularly discrete and difficult to observe, the ornithologists consider that the lori with diadem perhaps always forms part of the alive avifauna of New Caledonia.

Surface of distribution

New Caledonia exclusively: area of the Ignambi mount.

Habitat

Forest areas.

Behavior

Would visit the flowers of Erythrina .

Statute

Threatened of disappearance, if it is not extinct.

The animal and the man

Philately

Represented on a postage stamp of New Caledonia of 1982 (35 F.).

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