Parrots, Macaws and Allies
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. There are 5 species which occur in Chile.
- Burrowing Parrot Cyanoliseus patagonus
- Austral Parakeet Enicognathus ferrugineus
- Slender-billed Parakeet Enicognathus leptorhynchus (E)
- Monk Parakeet Myiopsitta monachus (I)
- Mountain Parakeet Psilopsiagon aurifrons
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