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Red-masked parakeets average about 33 centimetres (13 in) long, of which half is the tail. [3] They are bright green with a mostly red head on which the elongated pale eye-ring is conspicuous; the nape is green. Also, the lesser and median underwing coverts are red, and there is some red on the neck, the thighs, and the leading edge of the ...
The red-breasted parakeet is now placed in the genus Psittacula that was introduced in 1800 by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier. [4] [5] The genus name is a diminutive of the Latin word psittacus for a "parrot". The specific epithet alexandri is from Alexander the Great whose soldiers introduced parakeets to Greece. [6] Eight subspecies are ...
Red-masked parakeet Psittacara erythrogenys Lesson, 1844: Ecuador and Peru. [6] Size: Habitat: Diet: NT Finsch's parakeet Psittacara finschi (Salvin, 1871) Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama [6] Size: Habitat: Diet: LC White-eyed parakeet Psittacara leucophthalmus (Müller, PLS, 1776)
This list of bird species introduced to the Hawaiian Islands includes only those species known to have established self-sustaining breeding populations as a direct or indirect result of human intervention. A complete list of all non-native species ever imported to the islands, including those that never became established, would be much longer.
Several species, including red-lored parrots (Amazona autumnalis), lilac-crowned parrots (Amazona finschi) and yellow-chevroned parakeets (Brotogeris chiriri), have become well established in Southern California, and in San Francisco's Telegraph Hill area there is a population of mainly red-masked or cherry-headed parakeets, a female mitred ...
IUCN Red List Status Range Picture Masked shining parrot: P. personata (Gray, 1848) i NT: Viti Levu, the largest island of Fiji Maroon shining parrot: P. tabuensis, (Gmelin, 1788) LC: Vanua Levu and Taveuni, which are two islands of Fiji Crimson shining parrot: P. splendens, (Peale, 1849) g NT: Kadavu and Ono, which are part of the Kadavu Group ...
The Andean cock-of-the-rock is the national bird of Peru. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Peru. The avifauna of Peru has 1884 confirmed species, of which 118 are endemic, three have been introduced by humans, and 83 are rare or vagrants. An additional 26 species are hypothetical (see below).
The nene is the official state bird of Hawaii.. This list of birds of Hawaii is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species seen naturally in the U.S. state of Hawaii as determined by Robert L. and Peter Pyle of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, and modified by subsequent taxonomic changes.