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The northern cardinal is the state bird of Ohio. This list of birds of Ohio includes species documented in the U.S. state of Ohio and accepted by Ohio Bird Records Committee (OBRC). As of November 2024, there were 451 species on the official list. [1]
IUCN Red List Status Range Picture Senegal parrot: P. senegalus (Linnaeus, 1766) LC: West Africa (excluding the Maghreb) Red-bellied parrot: P. rufiventris (Rüppell, 1842) LC: Eastern Horn of Africa, eastern Kenya, and northeast Tanzania Rüppell's parrot: P. rueppellii (G. R. Gray, 1849) LC: Northern Namibia and the coast of Angola Brown ...
Finches are seed-eating passerine birds, that are small to moderately large and have a strong beak, usually conical and in some species very large. All have twelve tail feathers and nine primaries. These birds have a bouncing flight with alternating bouts of flapping and gliding on closed wings, and most sing well.
English: Full title: The code of nomenclature and check-list of North American birds adopted by the American Ornithologists' Union; being the report of the Committee of the Union on Classification and Nomenclature.
Psittacinae (Afrotropical parrots, African parrots, or Old World parrots [1]) is a subfamily of parrots, native to sub-Saharan Africa, which include twelve species and two extant genera.
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.
In 1992, the newspaper USA Today published that 11 million pet birds were in the United States alone, [103] many of them parrots. Europeans kept birds matching the description of the rose-ringed parakeet (or called the ring-necked parrot), documented particularly in a first-century account by Pliny the Elder. [104]
Psittacopasseres is a taxon of birds consisting of the Passeriformes (passerines, a large group of perching birds) and Psittaciformes (). [3] Per Ericson and colleagues, in analysing genomic DNA, revealed a lineage comprising passerines, psittacines and Falconiformes. [4]