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  2. Monk parakeet - Wikipedia

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    Monk and cliff parakeets are unique among even nesting parrots for their construction of large, external nests in trees or manmade structures instead of using tree cavities. [ 18 ] The monk parrot is a gregarious species which often breeds colonially, building a single large nest with separate entrances for each pair.

  3. File:Monk Parakeet nest -- League City, Texas.jpg - Wikipedia

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  4. Myiopsitta - Wikipedia

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    The type species was subsequent designated as the monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) by English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855. [4] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek mus, muos meaning "mouse" and the Neo-Latin psitta meaning "parrot". [5] The name alludes to the mouse-grey face and underparts of the monk parakeet. [6]

  5. Parrot - Wikipedia

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    The vast majority of parrots are, like this rose-ringed parakeet, cavity nesters. Only the monk parakeet and five species of lovebirds build nests in trees, [77] and three Australian and New Zealand ground parrots nest on the ground. All other parrots and cockatoos nest in cavities, either tree hollows or cavities dug into cliffs, banks, or the ...

  6. Monk parakeets - Wikipedia

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  7. Brotogeris - Wikipedia

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    Brotogeris is a genus of small parrots endemic to Central and South America. Their closest relatives are the monk parakeet and the cliff parakeet in the genus Myiopsitta.They eat seeds and fruit. [1]

  8. Hawaiian monk seals grow to be 6-7 feet long, weigh 400-600 pounds, and can live more than 30 years. Males and females are generally the same size — the only way to tell them apart is to look at ...

  9. Feral parakeets in Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    Kew Gardens. Feral parakeets in Great Britain are wild-living, non-native parakeets that are an introduced species into Great Britain.The population mainly consists of rose-ringed parakeets (Psittacula krameri), a non-migratory species of bird native to Africa and the Indian Subcontinent, with a few, small breeding populations of monk parakeets, and other occasional escaped cage birds.