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The golden-shouldered parrot is listed as endangered (CITES I), with population surveys pointing to a total wild population of between 700-1,100 birds [10] with around 300 breeding pairs. The remaining majority of birds are thought to be juvenile birds in their first year of life.
The female is a dull-green parrot with a grey-brown head and pink undertail coverts. Juveniles are similar to the female. [6] The male hooded parrot can be distinguished from the similar looking male golden-shouldered parrot mainly by the absence of a pale frontal band, a larger yellow patch on the wings, and absence of the red on the abdomen.
Critically endangered birds are listed separately. There are 683 avian species which are endangered or critically endangered. Additionally 53 avian species (0.48% of those evaluated) are listed as data deficient, meaning there is insufficient information for a full assessment of conservation status.
Cain concluded in 1955 that within the genus Psephotus the mulga parrot was more closely related to the golden-shouldered parrot than to the red-rumped parrot. [8] A 2011 genetic study including nuclear and mitochondrial DNA found that the mulga parrot was closely related to the red-capped parrot, the two lineages having diverged in the Miocene ...
The species is allied to genus Psephotellus of the parrot family Psittaculidae, published by Gregory Mathews in 1913, and is the type for that description. [4] A study using genome analysis of museum specimens concluded the closest living species is Psephotellus chrysopterygius, the alwal or golden-shouldered parrot of north eastern Australia. [5]
The golden parakeet or golden conure (Guaruba guarouba), or the Queen of Bavaria conure [3] is a medium-sized golden-yellow Neotropical parrot native to the Amazon Basin of interior northern Brazil. It is the only species placed in the genus Guaruba. Its plumage is mostly bright yellow, hence its common name, but it also possesses green remiges.
The greatest diversity of parrots is in South America and Australasia. [ 5 ] The Cacatuoidea are quite [ clarification needed ] distinct, having a movable head crest, a different arrangement of the carotid arteries, a gall bladder , differences in the skull bones, [ 6 ] and lack the Dyck texture feathers that—in the Psittacoidea—scatter ...
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