The Réunion Parakeet was a little-known and extinct subspecies, sometimes considered a full species, of parakeet which used to inhabit Réunion

Réunion

Réunion is a French island with a population of about 800,000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about south west of Mauritius, the nearest island.Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas departments of France...

 Island in the western Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...

. It is only known from descriptions, as well as illustrations of which it is unknown whether they were drawn from live or stuffed specimens. It was closely related to the extant but endangered Mauritius Parakeet

Mauritius Parakeet

The Mauritius Parakeet , also known as Echo Parakeet, is the sole survivor of the Psittacula species which inhabited the southern Indian ocean islands near Madagascar. Its local name is katover.-Taxonomy:...

and became extinct in about 1770.