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| Scarlet macaw one of the most beautiful bird in parrot family. |
We all love parrot because they are colorful,
beautiful and playful bird. Maybe some of us would like to keep it as a pet.
Anyway with the population of parrot that decreasing in their natural habitat
we need to think it through before we decide to take it out of their lovely
home.
The best things you want to know about parrot
that there are large species of parrot consist under the order of Psittaciformes which includes cockatoos
(family Cacatuidae). Even though parrots
have close relationship with human as pet since long time ago, they still suite
better with their natural environment - because bird needs to fly to be bird.
Anyway the captive birds show intelligent with amusing behaviors, affectionate
with human and other animals and even imitative many sounds, including human
speech.
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| Parrots are playful bird, as can be seen here in the photo. |
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| Cockatoo, notorious with their ability to imitate human speech. |
The order Psittaciformes
are divided into three superfamilies: the Psittacoidea
("true" parrots), the Cacatuoidea
(cockatoos), and the Strigopoidea
(New Zealand parrots). Most parrot live in topical and sub-tropical region with
several species can be found in temperate region in Southern Hemisphere. The
large diversity of parrots is in South America and Australia.
There are 387 extent species under order Psittaciformes belonging to 87 genera
with the main classification.
3 main groups;
Superfamily
Psittacoidea: true
parrots
- Family Psittacidae
- Family Psittaculidae
Superfamily
Cacatuoidea:
cockatoos
Superfamily
Strigopoidea: New
Zealand parrots
- Family Nestoridae
- Family Strigopidae
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| African grey parrot from Africa. |
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| Golden parakeet is native to Brazil. |
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| New Zealand kākā is one of few species in New Zealand. |
From all of the species, 15 of them are already
extinct and many other are listed under “Near threatened” to “Critically
endangered” in the IUCN Red List categories Conservation status. So in order to
ensure these species keep on survives as long as we can, we need to learn more
about them and preserve as much as we can their natural habitat.
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| Tiny Pacific partotlet. |
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| Red lory from Australia. |
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| Swift parrot another small species from Australia. |
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| Western rosella - also from Australia. |
