The common name and scientific name commemorate the German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (8 August 1839 - 31 January 1917, Braunschweig).
Otto Finsch | Wheatear | Cyprus Wheatear | Black-eared Wheatear | Mountain Wheatear | Finsch's Parakeet | Dutch Oven (right) and Wheatear at Lord Falmouth's Mereworth Stud in 1884, engraving by John Sturgess |
The common name and scientific name commemorate the German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (8 August 1839 - 31 January 1917, Braunschweig).
White-eyed Parakeets are sometimes confused with Finsch's Parakeets because both have the red and yellow epaulets under their wings.