315 parrots, parakeets, parrots, lorries, lorikeets, macaws, lovebirds and budgerigars are diverse groups. However, they are so uniform in their diagnostic function that everything can be recognized at a glance as a parrot mate and family member. They vary in size, from a small 3.5-inch pygmy parrot in the Papua region to a 40-inch macaw with a flashy and long tail in the Amazon jungle. They vary in shape, from fat African lovers and South American Amazons to slender lorries and wildly crested parrots in the Australo Malayan region. Coloring resists summarizing in sentences, but usually the body is a single color of green, yellow, red, white, or black, with a contrasting patch of red, yellow, or blue on the head, wings, or tail There is.
The distinguishing characteristic is a hooked invoice, with a large head and short neck, which is particularly strongly curved. Equally important structural features are the parrot's powerful gripping feet with two toes in front and two toes in the back. Parrots also have wide holes at the base of bills that are open at the nostrils and feathered in many species. Their small eyes often touch bare skin patches, especially in large species. Those fairly sparse feathers were littered with powder.
Parrots are a unique ancient group that fully guarantees their order. They show some affinity of anatomy and habits to both pigeons and cuckoos. Their fossil record is poor because they are basically tree-like birds. The earliest discovered so far is the Miocene less than 15 million years ago. These show parrots used to be more widespread than they are today at temperate latitudes, and north to almost North America, Canada, France, and Europe.
Parrot & current distribution is pantropical. They occur on all lands in the southern hemisphere except the southern tip of Africa and the more remote Pacific Islands. In the Northern Hemisphere, the New World has now reached northern Mexico [until recently the central United States] and the Old World has reached Southeast Asia. Parrots are grouped into six main groups, sometimes given family ranks, but most of today's students give subfamily ranks at best because of their negligible structural differences.
Although not domesticated like chickens, ducks or pigeons, there are probably more species of parrots reared and raised than other bird groups. Primitive tribes have been kept as pets since ancient times. The African gray parrot's speaking ability is mentioned in ancient Greek and Roman writings. The charm of parrots is partly aesthetic and partly anthropomorphic. The fascinating shades and the ease of being kept in captivity keep imitating the human voice, showing love to each other, reacting to flattery, and using the feet almost as hands It is a characteristic. Just like eating sandwiches, other birds hold food on one leg and don't bite. Parrots are very long-lived. The survival time of wild birds affected by natural enemies is unknown, but individuals have been living in captivity for over 50 years, and one has been reported to have reached 80.
Parrot attributes
Parrots have the ability to mimic only in captivity. In the wild, they are screaming or screaming birds or Twitter, depending on their size, and the range of voice expression is poor. But in captivity, you learn to imitate all kinds of sounds. Some species are better than others. The African gray parrot is considered one of the best imitations, followed by the Latin American green Amazon. Large and small species do not work. Cockatoo and macaw can learn one or two phrases, and small budgerigars and parakeets can teach you to play a song if you have patience.
Parrot enthusiasts cite examples to prove the opposition, but speaking parrots doesn't have a few ideas about what they are saying. In many cases, it takes a little imagination to put the right words on the syllables they emit. Parrots learn best when they are young and in most cases repeat sounds that are easier to hear, with little choice or choice. While a friend built a house on the next site, he had a young yellow-headed Amazon on the porch. Intrigued by the zipper sound of the hand saw, the bird made it his favorite item if he had a vocabulary. My friend was tired of listening to the carpenter watching all day, and gave a bird to the zoo.
Parrot lovers were hit hard in the 1930s when it was discovered that parrots originally suffered from a viral disease called parrot disease. To combat the disease, wild plant imports were banned and parrot traffic in cages suffered a serious setback. Later researchers have shown that "parrot fever" occurs in almost all birds, including poultry and pigeons, and the disease is now more appropriately referred to as birds. Antitoxins and antibiotics have been developed that significantly reduce the severity of toxic strains, and now the fear of the disease is almost overcome. Parrots are once again favored as cage birds, especially small budgerigars raised in white and yellow far away from the blue and green ancestors of Australian wild ancestry.
Fancy macaw
The king of the parrot family is 15 fancy macaws that live in the rainforests from southern Mexico to Latin America. The biggest and most handsome are red and green macaws from Panama to Bolivia. When fully developed, its tail alone is more than 2 feet long. Slightly smaller hyacinth macaws, appreciated by parrot lovers for their lovely coloring, only inhabit the vast jungle of Brazilian interiors. The most common macaws seen at the zoo are S-colored macaws and gold- and blue-colored macaws. Another species widely distributed south of Mexico is the army macaw. Macaws usually move in pairs. These spectacular birds fly screaming with strong and fast wings on a high panorama of the native jungle, so it's a much more exciting sight than a zoo perch domesticated opponent and will never forget It is not. The other members of the group will be smaller. All tails have long scales.
New world parrot
Perhaps the best known of the New World parrots is about 25 Amazon species, often kept as cage birds. These are rugged green parrots with short square or round tails, most of which are marked in yellow, red, or blue. One of the biggest yellow headed Amazons is the best talker of American parrots. Other commonly caged Amazons are yellowish and reddish. One is yellow and the other is reddish. One of the smallest is a 10-inch white front Amazon with a white forehead, a bright red lower, and a male red wing patch.
Some of the lesser-familiar New World parrot groups are conures that are smaller and thinner than the Amazon, with longer, pointed tails. The most impressive of the group is the Brazilian Golden Conure. Also classified here is the only parrot native to the United States, the recently extinct Carolina parakeet, a yellowish green body, a long pointed tail, and an orange yellow head about 12 inches cute parrot is.
In the early 19th century, Carolina Parakeets were distributed from North Dakota and Central New York to eastern Texas and eastern Florida, and were abundant in the Mississippi Valley and Atlantic coastal forested land. Hunters often kill everything because the herd parakeets were unwilling to hover with curiosity and concerns about fallen birds to control the looting of fruits and grains to be slaughtered for sports I did it. They became very rare by 1900. The last was seen in the Florida Everglades in the early 1920s. It was generally kept as a cage bird in the 19th century, but was not raised in captivity and disappeared before the decision to save the species was exhausted.
The African gray parrot is similar in size and shape to the Amazon. This directs the highest price of all parrots among bird dealers because of its excellence as a counterfeit. This gray red-tailed bird lives in the Congo rainforest, from the Gold Coast to Kenya and Tangaika. Like so many small parrots in the wild, it generally screams, and a flock of chattering is flying like a bullet over the top of the tree. In West Africa, it can cause serious damage to grains.
Lovebird
Lovebird is a group of old world parrots with the smallest, heavy, pointed tails that are best developed in Africa and Madagascar. They are very prized as cage birds, and have attractive colors and human characteristics that like each other's company. Birds in cages gather and sit down every hour and give all the evidence of attachment to each other. In the wild, lovers usually move in large flocks and often damage crops. Most genders are similar, but the flashy Electus on the South Pacific islands is once believed to be a different species because of the very different gender colors [male bright green, female soft maroon] It was.
Parakeet
True Parakeet is an extensive Old World group centered on the Malayan region of India. Most of these little parrots have long, pointed tails. Many live in arable land and eat not only grains but also fruits. They move in large chattering flocks and often eat the ground. The best known of this group is the Australian budgerigar, which is now a popular cage bird. A strange group is a hanging parrot that is a small green bird from India to the Philippines that hangs upside down from a perch and sleeps like a bat.
Another distinct group of Australo Malayan parrots consists of 16 parrots, and unlike other parrots, they can freely have a long, pointed top and bottom. Most of them are pretty sized white birds that are frequently washed or pink or yellowish, and some heraldic colors vary. Wild parrots are noisy, flock of birds that pass through the top of trees in small loose flocks, perched on exposed limbs, and stand out conspicuously on dark leaves. The white parrot in the Solomon Islands was a well-known bird to Americans during World War II, and men gained their native lives as pets. The dress of CB taught one bird to repeat monotonously “Bresoe said so,” responding to the joy of the troops and the inconvenience of their imperial officer Bresoe. Common white parrots are found in zoos, but they are sulfur-covered parrots with a bright yellow crown and pink lead beater parrots.
Black parrot
The largest is New Guinea's 31-inch Black Cockatoo, whose tremendous curved bill ends with a long, sharp tip. Black Cockatoo uses it to break up and dig meat from hard-shelled nuts that men struggle to break with rocks. Unlike white parrots, parrots are lone birds, usually found alone or in a few small groups on top of tall jungle trees. Also, unlike other parrots, black parrots have a bare face, and their cheeks turn from pink to red according to the emotions of the birds.
Lorky and Lorikeet
The Australasian Rory and Lorikeet are 6-15 inches long and are vibrant colors of green, blue, red and yellow, with a tongue rim for wrapping nectar and fruit juice. Unlike other nectar-eating birds that suck up nectar with thin tubular bills, Lorikeets crush the flowers with their beaks and wrap the juice pushed out with their tongue. A common bird found on the coconut plantations on the islands of the South Sea is the rainbow, Lorikeet, a long and narrow bird that invades many geographical species. Each island has a slightly different color and size. These large flocks of birds, like many bright flowers, dash Twitter and chatting on the treetop and descend into the palm leaves. Suddenly they flapping again and flying, but still chatting.
Pygmy parrot
The smallest of the family is a small pygmy parrot that is only 3-5 inches in length, six of which range from New Guinea to New Britain and Solomon. These dwarfs act like small woodpeckers rather than parrots. They creep up the tree trunks and big limbs in the forest that ying for insects through the gaps in the bark. They have a hard woodpecker tail with a barbed tip and long claws to cling to the bark. They are not as common or herd as most other parrots, and are quieter and harder to find in the jungle habitat. They have never been successfully held in captivity.
Kakapo
The most strange and unusual of all parrots is the New Zealand Kakapo or Owl parrot. This very rare bird is endangered by New Zealand introduced predators. Because it lost the power of flight. A large parrot, about 20 inches long, has mysterious stripes in green, yellow, brown and black on its soft feathers. Most are nocturnal, hiding under rock holes and tree roots during the day, and go out to eat in the evening. It runs rapidly on the ground and often spreads its wings when rushing. Climb trees for fruit and flower nectar and then slide down to the ground. The longest glide distance recorded is about 90 yards. In forest habitats, roads and roads are often left open by cutting roots and vegetation along the way. Kakapo is believed to have been extinct on the North Island, but recently, several survivors of the vast beech forest on the South Island have been reported.
Care and Kaka
Equally unusual are the other two New Zealand parrots, Care and Kaka. Both are fairly large birds, about the size of a crow, colored brownish green and marked in various reds and yellows. Kea is a highland that inhabits the tree lines in the high mountains of the South Island, and nests in the crevices and crevices beneath the rocks. In summer, you live on insects, larvae, normal parrots with fruits and buds supplemented with insects. In winter, it fell to a lower level to become a scavenger and gained the unpleasant habit of poking the back of a live sheep for kidney fat. Keas was awarded a prize to control the killing of their sheep, paying nearly 30,000 over eight years. This had little effect on their number, but obviously increased due to the abundant food supply. It turned out that removing all the sheep's debris after slaughter is a more effective way to control them.
Kaka, a close relative of care, lives in the low-level forests on both islands. It is a noisy bird usually found in flocks. It lives on fruits and nectar and digs out of rotten trees with a strong beak on larvae.
Parrot breeding
Parrots have a uniform nest-building habit. Parrot eggs are very white, round, always white, and quite shiny. The number per clutch is from 1 for some large species, 9 or 10 for some small species, and the average is 3-5. Most parrots are nests of cavities, usually in holes with no wood lining. Some nest in holes in the ground, and some nest in rock gaps. Pygmy parrots and some other small Australian species are nesting in termite houses. Incubation is usually by both men and women. In some species only women. The young are usually naked and naked, but immediately germinate the down coat to look like a feather owl. Little is known about their incubation period, but small parrots run for about 17 to 20 days. Like pigeons, both men and women feed young people by reflux.
The Argentine gray-breasted parakeet colonizes in a huge structure built with tall twigs in a tree where each pair of birds has its own private compartment. Birds use these huge nests all year round as bedrooms, adding year after year until a wagon or more twig breaks the branches. Other birds, such as tree ducks, sometimes occupy the vacant nests of these colonies with parakeets, and sometimes the opossums move, apparently living peacefully with them.
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