Lorikeets, 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.
- Budgerigar, Melopsittacus undulatus (I) LC
- Monk Parakeet, Myiopsitta monachus (I) LC
- Carolina Parakeet, Conuropsis carolinensis (E) EX
- Green Parakeet, Aratinga holochlora LC (including Pacific Parakeet, Aratinga (holochlora) strenua)
- Thick-billed Parrot, Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha (Ex) EN E
- White-winged Parakeet, Brotogeris versicolurus (I) LC
- Red-crowned Parrot, Amazona viridigenalis EN
- Black-hooded Parakeet Nandayus nenday (I) LC
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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)