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Lories, Parakeets, Macaws, and Parrots

Lories, Parakeets, Macaws, and Parrots

6 Bird Species
Budgerigar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Budgerigar

    Budgerigar

    1 Photograph
  • Green Parakeet

    Green Parakeet

    7 Photographs
  • Monk Parakeet

    Monk Parakeet

    6 Photographs
  • Nanday Parakeet

    Nanday Parakeet

    0 Photographs
  • Red-crowned Parrot

    Red-crowned Parrot

    4 Photographs
  • Thick-billed Parrot

    Thick-billed Parrot

    0 Photographs
  • White-winged Parakeet

    White-winged Parakeet

    0 Photographs

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Non-vegetated Areas

0 species

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Salt Water

0 species

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Human-altered Areas

5 species

Budgerigar

Budgerigar

Melopsittacus undulatus

Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes
Green Parakeet

Green Parakeet

Psittacara holochlorus

Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes
Monk Parakeet

Monk Parakeet

Myiopsitta monachus

Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes
Red-crowned Parrot

Red-crowned Parrot

Amazona viridigenalis

Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia
White-winged Parakeet

White-winged Parakeet

Brotogeris versicolurus

Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes
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Fresh Water

0 species

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Grassland and Scrubland

0 species

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Forest and Woodlands

2 species

Red-crowned Parrot

Red-crowned Parrot

Amazona viridigenalis

Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia
Thick-billed Parrot

Thick-billed Parrot

Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha

Western Confierous Forest, Dry Western Woodlands
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