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The adult male sports a pink and black neck ring, [9] and the hen and immature birds of both sexes either show no neck rings, or display shadow-like pale to dark grey neck rings. Both sexes have a distinctive green colour in the wild with a red beak and blue tail, [ 9 ] and captive bred ringnecks have multiple colour mutations which include ...
The blue-winged parakeet (Psittacula columboides), also known as the Malabar parakeet, is a species of parakeet endemic to the Western Ghats of southern India.Found in small flocks, they fly rapidly in forest clearings while making screeching calls that differ from those of other parakeet species within their distribution range.
Psittacula, also known as Afro-Asian ring-necked parrots, is a genus of parrots from Africa and Southeast Asia. It is a widespread group with a clear concentration of species in south Asia , but also with representatives in Africa and the islands of the Indian Ocean .
Parrots, also known as psittacines (/ ˈ s ɪ t ə s aɪ n z /), [1] [2] are the 402 species of birds that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions, of which 387 are extant. The order is subdivided into three superfamilies: the Psittacoidea ("true" parrots), the Cacatuoidea (cockatoos), and the ...
Large Indian parakeet (P. e. nipalensis) Eastern Afghanistan, Pakistan, North India, Central India, East India, Nepal, and Bhutan. It is larger than the nominate subspecies, and more greyish-green. The back of the head and cheeks are tinged blue. Adult males have a broader black stripe across the lower cheek. Large Burmese parakeet (P. e. avensis)
Australian ringneck, a parrot native to Australia; Barbary dove or Ringneck dove, a domesticated dove species; Diadophis punctatus or ringneck snake, found in North America; Indian ringneck, a parrot native to India; Liopeltis, a genus of snakes that includes the Malayan ringneck (L. tricolor) Ringneck pheasant, a bird found in Eurasia and ...
Lord Derby's parakeet (Psittacula derbiana), also known as Derbyan parakeet, is a parrot species, [3] which is confined to a small pocket of moist evergreen forest in the hills and mountains of the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, and adjoining parts of Tibet, Sichuan and Yunnan in China. [1]
Kew Gardens. Feral parakeets in Great Britain are wild-living, non-native parakeets that are an introduced species into Great Britain.The population mainly consists of rose-ringed parakeets (Psittacula krameri), a non-migratory species of bird native to Africa and the Indian Subcontinent, with a few, small breeding populations of monk parakeets, and other occasional escaped cage birds.