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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]
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Singapore.The avifauna of Singapore include a total of 450 species, 35 of which have been introduced by humans. [1]This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2023b edition. [2]
Red-breasted parakeet: P. alexandri (Linnaeus, 1758) i NT: Indochina (excluding central Thailand) and the Himalayas Nicobar parakeet: P. caniceps (Blyth, 1846) i NT: Nicobar Islands which is northwest of Sumatra Long-tailed parakeet: P. longicauda (Boddaert, 1783) i NT: Sumatra, coasts of Borneo, tip of the Malay Peninsula Mascarene grey parakeet
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.
The red-breasted parakeet is now placed in the genus Psittacula that was introduced in 1800 by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier. [4] [5] The genus name is a diminutive of the Latin word psittacus for a "parrot". The specific epithet alexandri is from Alexander the Great whose soldiers introduced parakeets to Greece. [6] Eight subspecies are ...
Nicobar parakeet, Psittacula caniceps; Long-tailed parakeet, Psittacula longicauda † Mascarene grey parakeet, Psittacula bensoni † Genus Lophopsittacus † Broad-billed parrot, Lophopsittacus mauritianus † Genus Necropsittacus † Rodrigues parrot Necropsittacus rodricanus † Genus Mascarinus
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First described by French naturalist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1826, the superb parrot is one of three species in the genus Polytelis of long-tailed parrots. [4] Common names include superb parrot and, in avicultural circles, Barraband's parrot or parakeet, named after the artist Jacques Barraband who illustrated it for Francois Le Vaillant in 1801 [5] or green leek (although the last is ...