Scientific name:
Trichoglossinae

Natural spread:
Asia, New Guinea, Australia

Loris forms a subfamily of smaller parrots with approximately 60 types, that Philippines in Indonesia, on the Sundainseln, Celebes, the Molukken, as well as on New Guinea, many types!) and many Pacific islands (Salomonen, Melanesien, Micronesia, Polynesia) and in Australia including Tasmania native is.

Shape, way of life With 12-40 cm of total-length, Loris are turned tree-inhabitants of the rain-forest-regions and palm-groves, some types live also in open bush and savanna-landscapes. The plumage of most types is colorfully colored shining; red, blue and green tones result in splendid patterns, why Loris, beside its easy tamable-ness and big familiarity in captivity, from both the natives of its home and in zoos and from private bird-lovers gladly is held. Also free-living animals often get used quite fast to the present of the human being.

With most Loris, both sexes resemble from, some types show low differences in the plumage-coloring. The nest of the smaller Loriarten consists of 4-6 eggs that big "Pinselzüngler" set aside only 2 eggs in tree-caves. After 18-26 days of brood-duration, the boys slip; they train 2 Dunenkleider and become independent only in the age of 8-9 weeks. As preferred feed, Loris pick up blooms, fruits and berries, also insects and its larva don't spurn it. In adaptation to this soft food, the inside of the waiter-beak doesn't have any file-notches, as with other parrots; furthermore, the tongue-top shows brush-good bristles, with which Loris bloom-nectar and fruit juice sent, licks up, as soon as they squashed the blooms and fruits with the usually narrow beak. Therefore, one calls also "brush-tongue-parrots", "Pinselzüngler" u, this Loris. ä.

Loris live together sociably in swarms; some types form flocks of several hundred birds. Many types are threatened by the extermination.

Dwarf-parrots The 5 types of the dwarf-parrots don't construct aufgespaltenen tongue-top an exception with its thick beak and it under the Loris. One therefore compares this group also as "round-beak-parrots" with the remaining "Pinselzünglern."

Dwarf-parrots are the smallest parrots beside the woodpecker-parrots. With its mainly green plumage, they don't attract attention at all in the treetops, only the down-falling fruit-remains of the figs betray its presence. The nest of the dwarf-parrots consists of 3-4 eggs.

Brush-tongue-parrots To this, the Keilschwanzloris (type Trichoglossus), mainly green colored Loris with terraced truancy, belong; the Breitschwanzloris (type Domicella or Lorius), primarily red and green colored parrots, among them the 30 cm big Frauenlori (Domicella loryx), the Erzlori (Domicella domicella) and the 30 cm big Prachtlori (Domicella garrula); the Glanzloris (type Chalcopsitta), mainly green, olivbraun or also shiny-black feathered parrots, furthermore the mainly red feathered Kapuzenlori (Eos squamata).