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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 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 February 2025. Small, long-tailed, seed-eating parakeet Budgerigar Temporal range: Pliocene–Holocene Pre๊ ๊ O S D C P T J K Pg N Blue cere indicates male Flaking brown cere indicates female in breeding condition Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain ...
The name 'Psittaciformes' comes from the ancient Greek for parrot, ψιττακฯς ('Psittacus'), whose origin is unclear. Ctesias (5th century BCE) recorded the name Psittacus after the Indian name for a bird, most likely a parakeet (now placed in the genus Psittacula).
Conures are either large parakeets or small parrots found in the Western Hemisphere. They are analogous in size and way of life to Afro-Eurasia's rose-ringed parakeets or the Australian parakeets. All living conure species live in Central and South America. The extinct Conuropsis carolinensis, or Carolina parakeet was an exception.
Common Name Scientific name Distribution Tui parakeet: Brotogeris sanctithomae: Brazil, and Amazonian Peru, Bolivia, eastern Ecuador, and south-eastern Colombia. Plain parakeet: Brotogeris tirica: Brazil. White-winged parakeet: Brotogeris versicolurus: southeast Colombia to the river's mouth in Brazil. Yellow-chevroned parakeet, canary-winged ...
Bird ringing is the term used in the UK and in some other parts of Europe, while the term bird banding is more often used in the U.S. and Australia. [49] bird strike The impact of a bird or birds with an airplane in flight. [50] body down The layer of small, fluffy down feathers that lie underneath the outer contour feathers on a bird's body. [51]
The orange-fronted parakeet is now one of five species placed in the genus Eupsittula that was introduced in 1853 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. [8] [4] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek eu meaning "good" with the Modern Latin psittula meaning "little parrot".
[6] [7] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek mus, muos meaning "mouse" and the Neo-Latin psitta meaning "parrot", alluding to the mouse-grey face and underparts. The specific epithet monachus is Late Latin for a "monk". [8] The monk parakeet is one of two species in the genus Myiopsitta, the other being the cliff parakeet (Myiopsitta ...