Layard's Parakeet
Psittacula calthrapae
Layard's parakeet or the emerald-collared parakeet, is a parrot which is a resident endemic breeder in Sri Lanka. The common name of this bird commemorates the British naturalist Edgar Leopold Layard; his first wife, Barbara Anne Calthrop, whom he married in 1845, is commemorated in the specific epithet.
- Scientific name
- Psittacula calthrapae
- Family
- Old World Parrots
- IUCN status
- LC