Budgerigars, Parakeets and Parrots
Order: Psittaciformes. Family: Psittacidae
Parrots are small to large birds with a characteristic curved beak shape. Their upper mandibles have slight mobility in the joint with the skull and the have a generally erect stance. All parrots are zygodactyl, having the four toes on each foot placed two at the front and two back.
- Budgerigar, Melopsittacus undulatus (I)
- Red-masked Parakeet, Aratinga erythrogenys (I)
- Hispaniolan Parakeet, Aratinga chloroptera (A)
- Brown-throated Parakeet, Aratinga pertinax (I)
- Orange-fronted Parakeet, Aratinga canicularis (I)
- Nanday Parakeet, Nandayus nenday (I)
- Monk Parakeet, Myiopsitta monachus (I)
- Canary-winged Parakeet Brotogeris versicolorus (I)
- Hispaniolan Amazon, Amazona ventralis (I)
- Puerto Rican Amazon, Amazona vittata (E)
- White-fronted Amazon, Amazona albifrons (I)
- Red-crowned Amazon, Amazona viridigenalis (I)
- Yellow-headed Amazon, Amazona oratrix (I)
- Orange-winged Amazon, Amazona amazonica (I)
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