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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.
Psittacidae (15 C, 28 P) S. Strigopidae (1 C, 2 P) Strigopoidea (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Psittaciformes" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
3.1 Family Psittacidae. 3.1.1 Subfamily Psittacinae. 3.1.2 Subfamily Arinae ... The following classification is based on the most recent proposals as of 2012. [9] [10 ...
Stipa tenacissima (esparto, esparto grass, halfah grass, alfa grass, or needle grass) is a perennial grass of northwestern Africa and the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula. [ 1 ] Distribution
[2] [3] The name of the genus is a diminutive of the Latin word psittacus for a "parrot". [4] The genus includes 16 species, of which three are extinct. [5] †Newton's parakeet, Psittacula exsul - extinct (c.1875) Echo parakeet, Psittacula eques †Réunion parrot, Psittacula eques eques - extinct mid-18th century
Plate XLIII from Samuel Pepys's hand-coloured copy of Francis Willughby's 1678 Ornithology [1]. Early scientific works on birds, such as those of Conrad Gessner, Ulisse Aldrovandi and Pierre Belon, relied for much of their content on the authority of the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle and the teachings of the church, [2] [3] and included much extraneous material relating to the species ...
The four families are the Psittaculidae (Old World parrots), Psittacidae (African and New World parrots), Cacatuoidea (cockatoos), and Strigopidae (New Zealand parrots). One-third of all parrot species are threatened by extinction, with a higher aggregate extinction risk (IUCN Red List Index) than any other comparable bird group. [3]