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.
- Scarlet Macaw Ara macao
- Olive-throated Parakeet Aratinga nana
- Orange-chinned Parakeet Brotogeris jugularis
- Brown-hooded Parrot Pionopsitta haematotis
- White-crowned Parrot Pionus senilis
- Yellow-lored Amazon Amazona xantholora
- White-fronted Amazon Amazona albifrons
- Red-lored Amazon Amazona autumnalis
- Yellow-headed Amazon Amazona oratrix Endangered
- Yellow-crowned Amazon Amazona ochrocephala
- Yellow-naped Amazon Amazona auropalliata (A)
- Mealy Amazon Amazona farinosa
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“And the chandeliers are neat . . .
But their mignon, marblish glare!
We are cold, the parrots cried,
In a place so debonair.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)