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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 ...
Alternative names for the budgerigar include the shell parrot or shell parakeet, the warbling grass parakeet, the canary parrot, the zebra parrot, the flight bird, and the scallop parrot. Although more often used as a common name for small parrots in the genus Agapornis , the name "lovebird" has been used for budgerigars, because of their habit ...
A blue colour morph mutation parakeet kept as a pet Mimicry (talking) Rose-ringed parakeets are popular as pets and they have a long history in aviculture. The ancient Greeks kept the Indian subspecies P. krameri manillensis, and the ancient Romans kept the African subspecies P. krameri krameri.
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct.
Common name Scientific name IUCN Red List Status Range Picture Ochre-marked parakeet: P. cruentata (Wied-Neuwied, 1820) g VU: Scattered populations around the southeastern coast of Brazil (north of São Paulo) Maroon-bellied parakeet: P. frontalis (Vieillot, 1818) LC: Southwest Brazil, northern Uruguay, and southern Paraguay Blaze-winged parakeet
The Carolina parakeet was a small, green parrot very similar in size and coloration to the extant jenday parakeet and sun conure – the sun conure being its closest living relative. [ 20 ] The majority of the parakeets' plumage was green with lighter green underparts, a bright yellow head and orange forehead and face extending to behind the ...
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 ...
The barred parakeet (Bolborhynchus lineola), also known as the lineolated parakeet (commonly nicknamed the "Linnie") or the Catherine parakeet, is a small psittaciforme bird found in the highland forests of tropical Latin America. Its plumage is mostly green, with multiple black or dark green stripes and bars and a pale, peach-colored bill.