Brown-necked Parrot

Taxonomy

Order

Psittaciformes

Family

Psittacidae

Genus

Poicephalus

eBird Code

brnpar1

Subspecies (2)

• Poicephalus fuscicollis fuscicollis

  Senegambia to Nigeria; populations along the lower Congo River may be intermediate between Brown-necked Parrot (Brown-necked) Poicephalus robustus fuscicollis and Brown-necked Parrot (Gray-headed) Poicephalus robustus suahelicus

• Poicephalus fuscicollis suahelicus

  central Angola; southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Tanzania southward to Zimbabwe, northern Mozambique, and far northeastern South Africa; populations along the lower Congo River may be intermediate between Brown-necked Parrot (Brown-necked) Poicephalus robustus fuscicollis and Brown-necked Parrot (Gray-headed) Poicephalus robustus suahelicus