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The long-tailed parakeet was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. [2] The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. [3]
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Long-tailed parakeet, Psittacula longicauda; ... explicitly referencing a book description of the Réunion birds. It is known from ...
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Long-tailed parakeet, ... Long-tailed tits are a group of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. They make woven bag nests ...
Plum-headed parakeet, Psittacula cyanocephala; Blossom-headed parakeet, Psittacula roseata; Blue-winged parakeet, Psittacula columboides; Layard's parakeet, Psittacula calthropae; Lord Derby's parakeet, Psittacula derbiana; Red-breasted parakeet, Psittacula alexandri; Nicobar parakeet, Psittacula caniceps; Long-tailed parakeet, Psittacula ...
Blossom-headed parakeet, Psittacula roseata – R; Malabar parakeet, Psittacula columboides – R; Layard's parakeet, Psittacula calthropae – r; Derbyan parakeet, Psittacula derbiana – r; Red-breasted parakeet, Psittacula alexandri – R; Nicobar parakeet, Psittacula caniceps – r; Long-tailed parakeet, Psittacula longicauda – N R
The genus Polytelis (literally translates into 'magnificent') of the family Psittaculidae consists of three species long-tailed parrot endemic to Australia.Traditionally, it was included in the Australian broad-tailed parrots (tribe Platycercini), [2] but molecular studies place the genus within the Polytelini.
The Australian budgerigar, or shell parakeet, is a popular pet and the most common parakeet. Parakeets comprise about 115 species of birds that are seed-eating parrots of small size, slender build, and long, tapering tails. [citation needed] The Australian budgerigar, also known as "budgie", Melopsittacus undulatus, is probably the most common ...
The jandaya parakeet is a small, long-tailed parakeet with the reddish-orange body, green wings, vent and tail, yellow head, neck, and shoulders, orange cheeks, black bill, whitish periophthalmic ring, and dark eyes. The ends of the tail feathers are tinged in blue. It measures 30 cm (12 in) in length and weighs 125–140 gm.