The Puerto Rican parrot (Amazona vittata) was considered nearly extinct until very recently, when a major reintroduction project took place in the 1980s. These beautiful green birds with their ...

There are about 115 species of parrots in the Psittacidae subfamily, one of the parrot subfamilies. In the U.S., the most popular type of parakeet ... found in shades of green and yellow with ...

Budgerigars have a plethora of “color-coded” genes The normal wild -- “wild type” -- budgerigar, Melopsittacus undulatus, is a small green parrot with a yellow face, a long pointed tail ...

The workers instinctively duck and whip round and look up and see -- those crazy green ... Most Brooklyn parrots live in colonies of 50 or 60 birds, although a few less sociable types live on ...

They knew that parrots produce psittacofulvins, a type of red to yellow pigment ... in some parakeets turns the birds from yellow and green to blue. But it wasn't clear which genes and biochemical ...

Recommended Videos The mostly green parrots, which have a cluster of bright red feathers on their heads, are an unusual example of a species that has adapted well in the face of poaching and the ...

Red-and-green macaws at a clay lick ... Why would various types of macaws and other parrots want to gorge on clay when normally they eat plant matter? At first, studies hinted that the ...

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