{{Short description|Species of bird}} {{speciesbox | name = Chattering lory | status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 11 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2017 |title=''Lorius garrulus'' |volume=2017 |article-number=e.T22684581A117219105 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22684581A117219105.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}</ref> | image = Lorius garrulus-20070107.jpg | image_caption =At the Jurong Bird Park in Singapore | genus = Lorius | species = garrulus | authority = (Linnaeus, 1758) | synonyms = ''Psittacus garrulus'' {{small|Linnaeus, 1758}} }}
The '''chattering lory''' ('''''Lorius garrulus''''') is a forest-dwelling parrot endemic to North Maluku, Indonesia. It is considered vulnerable, the main threat being from trapping for the cage-bird trade.
The race ''L. g. flavopalliatus'' is known as the yellow-backed lory.
==Taxonomy== The chattering lory was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his ''Systema Naturae'' under the binomial name ''Psittacus garrulus''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1758 | title= Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | volume=1 | edition=10th | page=100 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | location=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=Latin | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/764492 }}</ref> The specific epithet ''garrulus'' is Latin and means "chattering", "babbling" or "noisy".<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=171 }}</ref> Linnaeus cited "The Scarlet Lory" that had been described and illustrated in 1751 by the English naturalist George Edwards in his book ''A Natural History of Uncommon Birds''. The specimen had been brought to London from the East Indies and Edwards was able to make a drawing of the live bird at the home of the Whig politician Robert Walpole.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Edwards | first=George | author-link=George Edwards (naturalist) | year=1751 | title=A Natural History of Uncommon Birds | location=London | publisher=Printed for the author at the College of Physicians | volume=Part IV | page=172 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50196410 }}</ref> Linnaeus designated the species locality as "Asia", but this is now taken to be the island of Halmahera in the Maluku Islands.<ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1937 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=3 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=155 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14477870 }}</ref> The chattering lory is now placed in the genus ''Lorius'' that was introduced in 1825 by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors.<ref>{{ cite journal | last=Vigors | first=Nicholas Aylward | author-link=Nicholas Aylward Vigors | year=1825 | title=On the arrangement of the genera of birds | journal=Zoological Journal | volume=2 | pages=391–405 [400] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2255537 }}</ref><ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2021 | title=Parrots, cockatoos | work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/parrots/| publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=25 July 2021 }}</ref>
Three subspecies are recognised:<ref name=ioc/> * ''L. g. flavopalliatus'' <small>Salvadori 1877</small> – Yellow-backed lory, found on Kasiruta, Bacan, Obi and Mandiole Islands * ''L. g. garrulus ''<small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> – nominate, found on Halmahera, Widi and Ternate Islands * ''L. g. morotaianus '' <small>(van Bemmel, 1940)</small> – found on Morotai and Rau Islands
==Description== The chattering lory is {{Convert|30|cm|in|abbr=on}} long. It is mostly red with an all-red head and an orange beak. The eyerings are grey and the irises are orange-red. The wings are mainly green and the angle of the wing is yellow. Its thighs are green. The tail is tipped with dark green. It has dark grey legs. It may or may not have a yellow area on its back depending on the subspecies.<ref>{{Cite book |first=Joseph M. |last=Forshaw |author-link=Joseph Forshaw |title=Parrots of the World; an Identification Guide |others=Illustrated by Frank Knight |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=0-691-09251-6 |year=2006 | at=Plate 17 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/parrotsofworldid0000fors }}</ref>
<gallery> File:Yellow-backed Lorikeet (Lorius garrulus) -Kuala Lumpur Bird Park1.jpg|At Kuala Lumpur Bird Park File:Yellow-backed Lorikeet (Lorius garrulus) -Kuala Lumpur Bird Park2a.jpg|Yellow-backed lorikeets File:Chattering-Lory---Lorius-garrulus.jpg|At Jurong Bird Park, Singapore File:Chattering lory (Lorius garrulus) (5).jpg|At Birdworld, England File:Chattering_Lory_(Lorius_garrulus)3.jpg </gallery>
==Popular culture== * Since 2019, YouTube has featured a chattering yellow-backed lory named "Velvet" from his home in India.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAFprr6PJJqENRj1ypyDcUg YouTube videos of Velvet. - accessed June 17, 2021.]</ref>{{Independent source inline|date=December 2025}} * In May 2021, a chattering lory belonging to former Capcom sound designer Hideaki Utsumi named "Gumi" became an Internet meme, with Utsumi's YouTube channel gaining over 200,000 subscribers by August, with the lory being recognized for the "wuewuewuewue" sound that it made resembling laughter.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsS33cJqqykG3bM7gGDEulg |title=Hideaki Utsumi |website=YouTube |access-date=July 1, 2021 |archive-date=July 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210701020403/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsS33cJqqykG3bM7gGDEulg |url-status=live }}</ref>{{Independent source inline|date=December 2025}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Lorius garrulus}} {{Wikispecies|Lorius garrulus}} * [http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/chattering-lory-lorius-garrulus BirdLife species factsheet for ''Lorius garrulus''] * {{Avibase|name=Lorius garrulus}} * {{EBirdSpecies|chalor1|Chattering Lory}} * {{VIREO|Chattering+lory}} * {{IUCN_Map|22684581/117219105|Lorius garrulus}} * {{Xeno-canto species|Lorius|garrulus|Chattering lory}}
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