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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 ...
Sloan reported that the parrots "are eaten bak'd in pyes and taste as pigeons." [ 3 ] The Linnaeus mistaken specified the type location as "America" instead of Jamaica. [ 4 ] The yellow-billed amazon is now one of around thirty species placed in the genus Amazona that was introduced by the French naturalist René Lesson in 1830.
The most commonly used name kākāriki is Māori in origin meaning "small parrot" (from kākā ‘parrot’ and riki ‘small’); [1] it has also been used to refer to the colour green because of the birds' predominantly green plumage. [2] [3] The patches of red on the birds' rumps are, according to legend, the blood of the demigod Tāwhaki. [4]
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).
Common name (Scientific name) Status Image Description Region and habitat White-bellied parrot (Green-thighed parrot) (Pionites leucogaster leucogaster) Vulnerable [7] About 23 cm (9.1 in) long. Mostly green and pink feet; apricot-orange cap; a medium, stout parrot. Amazon region of Brazil Lives in lowland humid tropical and seasonally flooded ...
The common name kea is from Māori, probably an onomatopoeic representation of their in-flight call – 'keee aaa'. [12] In New Zealand English , the word "kea" is both singular and plural. The genus Nestor contains four species: the New Zealand kākā ( Nestor meridionalis ), the kea ( N. notabilis ), the extinct Norfolk kākā ( N. productus ...
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 .
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.