parrots
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When did we ever have wild parrots in our country?

But why would he go to so much trouble to get some parrots?

"To learn that your best students are parrots after all."

I can't imagine what life would be like without parrots.

They can be taught to talk even better than parrots.

At that time, she and her husband had a collection of about 50 parrots.

However, most of these parrots cannot be seen by visitors.

Experiments on parrots have also been reported with similar results.

It is illegal to bring any of the parrots into the country, he said.

At last they were about to learn something of the mystery behind the parrots.

Parrots can be unpredictable, he said, and sometimes they simply leave on their own.

"We heard him say he has four of the parrots.

The lady above referred to told me more about her parrots.

What was the use of having a newspaper if one did not read it to one's parrots?

Their care is best provided by those experienced in keeping parrots.

Then, when the fat man did come, he was in a rage because the parrots were gone.

A cage in the far corner held two large parrots.

Trick training is generally considered to be positive for parrots.

It has been shown that parrots can count up to 6.

Parrots are among the most intelligent and social of birds.

Chances of seeing the parrots are best in early morning and late afternoon.

At the same time, others couldn't bear the thought of any harm coming to the parrots.

So he just sell the parrots and take the money."

"I told him, man, you might have been the first person in the history of the world to ever be killed by parrots.

Frankly, I question whether we need to take parrots from the wild at all.

The brain-to body size ratio of psittacines and corvines is actually comparable to that of higher primates.

Proventricular Dilatation Disease is a disease affecting psittacines (Parrots).

The parrot subfamily Psittaculinae consists of three tribes, the Polytelini with 3 genera, the Psittaculini or Asian psittacines and the pygmy parrots of the Micropsittini tribe.

The 15 species of parrots, parakeets, and other psittacines which have been recorded as nesting in the wild in South Florida (Snyder et al. 1990), are most certainly dispersing seeds of exotic plants.

"Psittaculturist" (Parrot Breeder) is a person who specializes in keeping, breeding and conserving psittacines species, also on preserving psittacines habitat and public awareness campaigns of the threats to the ongoing existence of parrots worldwide.

Psittaculture is a word that has been used in the aviculture community since the early 1970s, to denote people who specialize in keeping, breeding and conserving psittacines species, also on preserving psittacines habitat and public awareness campaigns to save wild parrots.

It is true that the whole corvid group, including ravens, crows and mynas, are at the bright end of the avian spectrum, but comparative measurements show that it is the psittacines - the parrots and their relatives - who top the bird world when the proportions of brain to body size are calculated.

In summary Avian Bornavirus should not be referred to the cause of Proventricultar Dilation Disease in psittacines, it is of questionable value to test any psittacine bird for ABV, and the only definitive diagnosis of a live parrot for PDD is a crop biopsy with histopathology.

The parrot order, psittaciformes, is a tangle of genera, many containing only one species.

Parrots are birds of the order Psittaciformes.

Together, they form the Strigopoidea, with comprises an ancient group that split off from all other Psittaciformes before their radiation.

Parrots (psittacines), any of about 353 species of bird belonging to the biological order Psittaciformes, which includes:

Rainbow Lorikeets are true parrots, within the Psittacoidea superfamily in the order Psittaciformes.

Psittaciformes (Parrots)

The true parrots are about 330 species of bird belonging to the superfamily Psittacoidea, one of the three superfamilies in the biological order Psittaciformes (parrots).

The combined evidence supported the hypothesis of Psittaciformes being "near passerines", i.e. the mostly land-living birds that emerged in close proximity to the K-Pg extinction.

Ornithologists usually classify the Eclectus Parrot as a member of tribe Psittaculini in the Psittacidae family of order Psittaciformes.

The Alexandrine Parakeet or Alexandrian Parrot (Psittacula eupatria) is a member of the psittaciformes order and of the Psittaculidae family.

Genetic Variability in the Red-tailed Amazon (Amazona brasiliensis Psittaciformes) Assessed by DNA fingerprinting.

All members of the psittaciformes order have a characteristic curved beak shape with the upper mandible having slight mobility in the joint with the skull and a generally erect stance.

Mayr, Gerald & Göhlich, Ursula B. (2004): A new parrot from the Miocene of Germany, with comments on the variation of hypotarsus morphology in some Psittaciformes.

Birds with a Gondwanan history include the flightless ratites (the Emu and Southern Cassowary), megapodes (the Malleefowl and Australian Brush-turkey), and a huge group of endemic parrots, order Psittaciformes.