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The name 'Psittaciformes' comes from the ancient Greek for parrot, ψιττακός ('Psittacus'), whose origin is unclear. Ctesias (5th century BCE) recorded the name Psittacus after the Indian name for a bird, most likely a parakeet (now placed in the genus Psittacula).
Scientific name IUCN Red List Status Range Picture Senegal parrot: P. senegalus (Linnaeus, 1766) LC: West Africa (excluding the Maghreb) Red-bellied parrot: P. rufiventris (Rüppell, 1842) LC: Eastern Horn of Africa, eastern Kenya, and northeast Tanzania Rüppell's parrot: P. rueppellii (G. R. Gray, 1849) LC: Northern Namibia and the coast of ...
The genus name is a Latinized version of the name Amazone given to them in the 18th century by the Comte de Buffon, who believed they were native to Amazonian jungles. [ 5 ] Amazona contains about thirty species of parrots, such as the Cuban amazon , festive amazon , and red-necked amazon .
The true parrots are distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, covering many different habitats, from the humid tropical forests to deserts in Australia, India, Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Central and South America, and two species, one extinct (the Carolina parakeet), formerly in the United States.
Genus Psittacus – Linnaeus, 1758 – two species ; Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population Grey parrot, Congo grey parrot, African grey parrot, Congo African grey parrot
Eclectus is a genus of parrot, the Psittaciformes, which consists of four known extant species known as eclectus parrots and the extinct Eclectus infectus, the oceanic eclectus parrot. The extant eclectus parrots are medium-sized parrots native to regions of Oceania, particularly New Guinea and Australia. Males are mostly bright green, females ...
The kākāpō (Māori: [kaːkaːpɔː]; [3] pl.: kākāpō; Strigops habroptilus), sometimes known as the owl parrot or owl-faced parrot, is a species of large, nocturnal, ground-dwelling parrot of the superfamily Strigopoidea. It is endemic to New Zealand. [4] Kākāpō can be up to 64 cm (25 in) long.
He placed it with all the other parrots in the genus Psittacus and coined the binomial name Psittacus ararauna. [2] This macaw is now one of the eight extant species within the Ara genus, first proposed in 1799 by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède. [3] [4] The genus name is from ará meaning "macaw" in the Tupi language of Brazil.