A paper examining the genetic differences between western and eastern Ground Parrots has been published and is available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/50n5334736535745/fulltext.pdf
The short summary – as to whether they should be split at the species level it’s a borderline case, and the authors “cautiously suggest” the recognition of two Ground Parrot species.
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