Lories, Parakeets, Macaws, 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. In South Carolina one extinct species has been recorded as well as three species of questionable origin.
- Carolina Parakeet, Conuropsis carolinensis (E)
- Budgerigar, Melopsittacus undulatus (P2)
- Monk Parakeet, Myiopsitta monachus (P2)
- Green Parakeet, Aratinga holochlora (P2)
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of South Carolina
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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)