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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
McElroy and colleagues agreed the two populations were distinct enough to be recognised as subspecies, however it is unclear to which group the type specimen belongs to. [10] John Gould called this bird "many-coloured parakeet" or "many-coloured parrot", a term used during the 19th century. The RAOU proposed "mulga parrot" in 1926. [11]
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]
Common Name Scientific name Distribution Tui parakeet: Brotogeris sanctithomae: Brazil, and Amazonian Peru, Bolivia, eastern Ecuador, and south-eastern Colombia. Plain parakeet: Brotogeris tirica: Brazil. White-winged parakeet: Brotogeris versicolurus: southeast Colombia to the river's mouth in Brazil. Yellow-chevroned parakeet, canary-winged ...