The Field Guide

Pet Birds

Pet Birds articles from Beauty of Birds: expert, ethical guidance on caring for and training pet birds.

Feral Quaker (Monk) Parrots

The Monk or Quaker Parakeet has established feral colonies around the United States, where they are most common in southern Florida and southeastern Texas.

Antipodes Island Parakeet

Antipodes Island / Green Parakeets

The Antipodes Island Parakeet, Cyanoramphus unicolor, also known as the green parakeet, lives only on Antipodes Island - one of New Zealand's southern, remote, bleak and inhospitable subantarctic islands (~62 sq.km in size).

Ducorp's Cockatoo

Ducorp’s Cockatoo (Cacatua ducorpsii)

The Ducorps' Cockatoo (Cacatua ducorpsii) is endemic to the Solomon Islands where it is common across most of the Solomons, absent only from Makira in the south. It inhabits lowland rainforests, secondary forests, cleared areas and gardens.

Yellow Rosella

Yellow Rosellas – also known as Yellow Crimson Rosellas

The Yellow Rosellas (Platycercus flaveolus) - also known as Yellow Crimson Rosellas - are recently discovered subspecies of the Crimson Rosella, (Platycercus elegans). The main difference between the two is that those parts of the Crimson Rosella which are red are bright yellow on the Yellow Rosella.

Corella Cockatoos

Average Weight of Amazon Parrots

If you want to know about the Average Weight of Amazon Parrots, here at Beauty of Birds you can access the Average Weights of Other Parrot Species.

Glaucous Macaw

Glaucous Macaw (Anodorhynchus glaucus)

The Glaucous Macaws (Anodorhynchus glaucus) are large South American parrots that are generally considered extinct or on the verge of extinction, as the last reliable sightings date back to the 1960.

Senegal Parrot (Poicephalus senegalus)

Senegal Parrots aka Yellow-vented Parrots

The Senegal Parrots (Poicephalus senegalus senegalus) are probably the best known and most popular members of the entire Poicephalus family, which includes Meyer's, Red-bellied, and Jardine's Parrots.

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