True parrot
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
The true parrots are about 350 species of colorful flighted (with a few notable exceptions, hookbilled, mostly herbivorous birds forming the superfamily Psittacoidea, one of the three superfamilies in the biological order Psittaciformes (parrots). True parrots are widespread, with species in Mexico, Central and South America, sub-Saharan Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Australia, and eastwards across the Pacific Ocean as far as Polynesia. The true parrots include many of the familiar parrots including macaws, conures, lorikeets, eclectus, amazon parrots, African gray parrot.
For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to parrots | ||
African grey parrot | Black-capped lory | Black-headed parrot |
Blue-and-yellow macaw | Blue-fronted amazon | Blue-headed parrot |
Budgerigar | †Cuban macaw | Dusky lory |
Eclectus parrot | Golden parakeet | Golden-shouldered parrot |
Great green macaw | Harlequin macaw | Hyacinth macaw |
Lear's macaw | Moluccan king parrot | Lovebird |
Orange-bellied parrot | †Paradise parrot | Rainbow lorikeet |
Red-and-green macaw | Red-crowned amazon | Red-masked parakeet |
Rose-ringed parakeet | Scarlet macaw | Sun parakeet |
Yellow-crowned parakeet | Yellow-headed amazon |