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The neotropical parrots or New World parrots comprise about 150 species in 32 genera found throughout South and Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean islands and the southern United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Among them are some of the most familiar and iconic parrots, including the blue and gold macaw , sun conure , and yellow-headed amazon .
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Higher-level bird taxa which are restricted to the Neotropical zoogeographic region. In this context higher-level bird taxa include orders , families , tribes , and genera . Pages in category "Higher-level bird taxa restricted to the Neotropics"
The family Psittacidae or holotropical parrots is one of three families of true parrots.It comprises the 12 species of subfamily Psittacinae (the Afrotropical parrots) and 167 of subfamily Arinae (the New World or Neotropical parrots) including several species that have gone extinct in recent centuries.
The Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis), or Carolina conure, is an extinct species of small green neotropical parrot with a bright yellow head, reddish orange face, and pale beak that was native to the Eastern, Midwest, and Plains states of the United States.
The Neotropical realm The main article for this category is Neotropical realm . This category is for articles about the native fauna of the Neotropical realm .
The first description of a bird called "jendaya" was by the German naturalist, Georg Marcgrave, who saw the bird during his 1638 expedition through Dutch Brazil. [2] Based on Marcgrave's description, the jandaya parakeet was included in the works of Francis Willughby in 1678, [3] John Ray in 1713, [4] Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760, [5] the Comte de Buffon in 1779, [6] and John Latham in ...
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 light to produce the vibrant colours of so many parrots. [7]