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Lories, Parakeets, Macaws, and Parrots

6 Bird Species

Budgerigar

Tiny parakeet with small yellow or grayish bill and long pointed tail. Natural variation adult: blue patch and two black dots head. Clean yellow forehead, loral area and throat. Yellow face, nape, back and wings barred in black. Gray wingtips. Green underparts and dark tail. Blue feet. Yellow wing st more...

Length: 18 cm Wingspan: 30 cm

Green Parakeet

Medium sized parakeet with overall greenish plumage. Adult: Green head and breast may have scattered red or orange feathers. Pink or red skin around eye with pale iris. Pale pinkish bill. Green body and wings. Gray or pale pink legs and feet. In flight, shows pale yellowish flight feathers. Juvenile: more...

Length: 33 cm Wingspan: 53 cm

Monk Parakeet

Introduced, exotic, and escaped from captivity; has naturalized and formed colonies in Florida, Texas, and other states. Adult, like other parakeets, is predominantly green with a long pointed tail; has dark blue flight feathers, gray breast and forehead, orange bill, bright green back and head, and more...

Length: 29 cm Wingspan: 48 cm

Nanday Parakeet

Similar in shape and general color (bright lime green) to Green Parakeet, with a black crown and face, a wash of teal blue-green across the breast, bluish flight feathers and blue in the outer half of the tail feathers, plus red feathering on the thighs. Bill is all-dark and heavy like other parrots more...

Length: 32 cm Wingspan: 48 cm

Red-crowned Parrot

A large, chunky, mostly green parrot, now common in several large U.S. cities. Adult is green overall with red crown, blue nape, thick orange bill, yellowish-tipped tail, red wing patch, and blue-tipped flight feathers. In flight, note blunt proportions and short tail. Other similar parrots lack red more...

Length: 30 cm Wingspan: 63 cm

Thick-billed Parrot

This species, along with the extinct Carolina Parakeet, was one of the only two parrots native to areas north of Mexico. Despite reintroduction efforts, it is currently not found in the U.S. It has a long tail and long pointed wings. Adult: Green overall, with red on the forehead and supercilium, a r more...

Length: 38 cm Wingspan: cm

White-winged Parakeet

Smallish green parakeet with a fairly long, pointed tail. Grass green overall with yellow greater coverts. Bold white eyering. Gray, partially unfeathered lores. Grayish-pink bill and feet. In flight, shows a yellow patch on the inner secondaries and broad triangular white patch on secondaries and in more...

Length: 22 cm Wingspan: 34 cm