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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 ...
It is a moderate-size parrot with a pale yellow head, predominantly white cheeks, scalloped black and gold back and pale blue underparts. Two subspecies are recognised, although some authorities consider it to be conspecific with the eastern rosella of southeastern Australia. Found in open woodland, it feeds on seeds and fruit.
Anodorhynchus – blue macaws (two living species, one probably recently extinct) Leptosittaca – golden-plumed parakeet; Ognorhynchus – yellow-eared parrot; Diopsittaca – red-shouldered macaw; Guaruba – golden parakeet; Conuropsis – Carolina parakeet ; Cyanopsitta – Spix's macaw (extinct in the wild) Orthopsittaca – red-bellied macaw
33 cm (13 in) long, mostly green, white forehead and lores, yellow crown and ear coverts, bare white eye rings. Yellow chin and shoulders. Some red and dark blue in the wing feathers. [66] The Netherlands Antilles, Venezuela [67] Blue-fronted amazon (Amazona aestiva) 38 cm (15 in) long, mostly green, blue forehead and yellow on the face.
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The Alexandrine parakeet was first described by French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson as Psittaca Ginginiana or "La Perruche de Gingi" (The Gingi's Parakeet) in 1760; after the town of Gingee in southeastern India, which was a French outpost then. The birds may, however, merely have been held in captivity there. [8]
The blue-winged parakeet is bluish grey with a long yellow-tipped tail. The black neck ring is complete in both males and females. The male has a bluish-green lower edge to the black collar and the upper mandible is red with a white tip while the female has an all black bill and has only the black collar.
The blue-crowned parakeet is a medium-sized bird measuring approximately 37 cm (14.5 in) in length and weighing between 140 and 190 g (4.9 and 6.7 oz). Blue-crowns are born with red coloring around the head, but blue-crowns are predominantly green, with dull blue coloring on the forehead, crown, cheeks, and ears in the nominate , but less blue ...