The Seychelles parakeet, occurred in the Indian Ocean islands of the Seychelles group, it resembled the Alexandrine parakeet, a member of the psittaciformes order and of the family Psittaculidae, the species is named after who?
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Seychelles parakeet The Seychelles parakeet ("Psittacula wardi") occurred in the Indian Ocean islands of the Seychelles group. It resembled the Alexandrine parakeet but was smaller and lacked the pink colour in its collar. The species is suspected to have become extinct due to intense persecution by farmers and coconut plantation owners.
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Alexandrine parakeet The Alexandrine parakeet or Alexandrian parrot ("Psittacula eupatria") is a member of the psittaciformes order and of the family Psittaculidae. The species is named after Alexander the Great, who is credited with the exporting of numerous specimens of this bird from Punjab into various European and Mediterranean countries and regions, where they were considered prized possessions for the nobles, royalty & warlords.
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Grey parrot The grey parrot or African grey parrot ("Psittacus erithacus") is an Old World parrot in the family Psittacidae. This article describes the Congo grey parrot. The Timneh parrot "(Psittacus timneh)" was earlier treated as conspecific but has since been split as a full species.
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Rodrigues owl The Rodrigues owl ("Mascarenotus murivorus"), also known as Leguat's owl or (somewhat misleadingly) Rodrigues little owl, was a small owl. It lived on the Mascarene island of Rodrigues, but it is nowadays extinct. It is part of the genus of Mascarene owls, "Mascarenotus". Like many of the Mascarene land-birds, the genus was a distinct relative to South-East Asian taxa, in this case apparently the "Ninox" owls of Australasia. However, they evolved to a form more like an "Otus" little owl, and in accord with a general trend seen in insular owls, their feet were proportionally elongated and they were able to live a more terrestrial lifestyle. It is sometimes assumed that Leguat mentioned this bird in his 1708 description, but this seems to be in error; Julien Tafforet gives a good description in 1726, however. The Rodrigues bird, which Tafforet compared to the "petit-duc", the European scops owl (and not, as often assumed to the little owl, the "chouette chevêche"), was more arboreal than its congeners and fed on small birds and "lizards" (small specimens of the Rodrigues day gecko and the Rodrigues giant day gecko). A monotonous call was given in good weather. Considering the bird's likely relationships as evidenced by the subfossil bones discovered later, and the detailed description of the related Mauritius owl, the Rodriguez bird was as large as a good-sized Southern boobook, with females reaching the size of a long-eared owl, and had ear tufts like an "Otus" owl and nearly naked legs.
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Pelecaniformes The Pelecaniformes is an order of medium-sized and large waterbirds found worldwide. As traditionally—but erroneously—defined, they encompass all birds that have feet with all four toes webbed. Hence, they were formerly also known by such names as totipalmates or steganopodes. Most have a bare throat patch (gular patch), and the nostrils have evolved into dysfunctional slits, forcing them to breathe through their mouths. They feed on fish, squid or similar marine life. Nesting is colonial, but individual birds are monogamous. The young are altricial, hatching from the egg helpless and naked in most. They lack a brood patch.
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Masked booby The masked booby ("Sula dactylatra") is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae. This species breeds on islands in tropical oceans, except in the eastern Atlantic; in the eastern Pacific it is replaced by the Nazca booby, "Sula granti", which was formerly regarded as a subspecies of masked booby. It is also called the masked gannet or the blue-faced booby.
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Marquesas cuckoo-dove The Marquesas cuckoo-dove ("Macropygia heana"), also referred to as the Marquesan cuckoo-dove, is an extinct species of bird in the pigeon family. It was endemic to the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia. It was described from subfossil bones recovered from the Hane archaeological site on the island of Ua Huka. The cuckoo-dove was a relatively large species, with long legs; its limb proportions suggesting a more terrestrial lifestyle than its congeners. Extinction occurred not long after, and probably as a consequence of, colonisation of the islands by Polynesians.
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Kakapo The kakapo (Māori: kākāpō or "night parrot"), "Strigops habroptila" (Gray, 1845), also called owl parrot, is a species of large, flightless, nocturnal, ground-dwelling parrot of the super-family Strigopoidea endemic to New Zealand.
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Mascarene Islands The Mascarene Islands ( ) or Mascarenhas Archipelago is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar consisting of Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues. The collective title is derived from the Portuguese navigator Pedro Mascarenhas, who first visited them in the early sixteenth century. The islands share a common geologic origin in the volcanism of the Réunion hotspot beneath the Mascarene Plateau and form a distinct ecoregion with a unique flora and fauna.
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Brown-throated parakeet The brown-throated parakeet ("Eupsittula pertinax"), commonly known as the St Thomas conure or brown-throated conure in aviculture, is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae.
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Lovebird A lovebird is one of nine species of the genus "Agapornis" (Greek: αγάπη "agape" 'love'; όρνις "ornis" 'bird'). They are a social and affectionate small parrot. Eight species are native to the African continent, with the grey-headed lovebird being native to Madagascar. Their name comes from the parrots' strong, monogamous pair bonding and the long periods which paired birds spend sitting together.
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Polytelis The genus Polytelis (literally translates into 'magnificent') of the family Psittaculidae consists of three species long-tailed parrot endemic to Australia. Traditionally, it was included in the Australian broad-tailed parrots (tribe Platycercini), but molecular studies place the genus within the Polytelini.
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Pseudeos Pseudeos is a genus of parrot in the family Psittaculidae.
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Parrot Parrots, also known as psittacines , are birds of the roughly 393 species in 92 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions. The order is subdivided into three superfamilies: the Psittacoidea ("true" parrots), the Cacatuoidea (cockatoos), and the Strigopoidea (New Zealand parrots). Parrots have a generally pantropical distribution with several species inhabiting temperate regions in the Southern Hemisphere, as well. The greatest diversity of parrots is in South America and Australasia.
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Pesquet's parrot Pesquet's parrot ("Psittrichas fulgidus") also known as the vulturine parrot (leading to easy confusion with "Pyrilia vulturina" from Brazil), is the only member of its genus, and its genus is the only member of the subfamily Psittrichadinae. It is endemic to hill and montane rainforest in New Guinea.
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Avocet The four species of avocets are a genus, Recurvirostra, of waders in the same avian family as the stilts. The genus name is from Latin "recurvus", "curved backwards" and "rostrum", "bill". The common name is thought to be derived from the Italian (Ferrarese) word "avosetta". Francis Willughby in 1678 noted it as the "Avosetta of the Italians".
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New Zealand parrot The New Zealand parrot superfamily (Strigopoidea) consists of three genera of parrots, "Nestor", "Strigops", and the fossil "Nelepsittacus". The genus "Nestor" consists of the kea, kaka, Norfolk Island kaka and Chatham Island kaka, while the genus "Strigops" contains the iconic "kākāpō". All extant species are endemic to New Zealand. The species of the genus "Nelepsittacus" were endemics of the main islands, while the two extinct species of the genus "Nestor" were found at the nearby oceanic islands such as Chatham Island of New Zealand, and Norfolk Island and adjacent Phillip Island. The modern common species names, "kea, kākā", and "kākāpō", are the same as the original Māori names.
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Moorea sandpiper The Moorea sandpiper or white-winged sandpiper ("Prosobonia ellisi") is an extinct member of the large wader family Scolopacidae that was endemic to the Moorea in French Polynesia, where the locals called it te-te in the Tahitian language.
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Crimson shining parrot The crimson shining parrot ("Prosopeia splendens") is a parrot from Fiji. The species is endemic to the islands of Kadavu and Ono in the Kadavu Group. The species was once considered conspecific with the red shining parrot of Vanua Levu and Taveuni, but is now considered its own species. The species is sometimes known as the Kadavu musk parrot.
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Psittacidae The family Psittacidae is one of three families of true parrots. It comprises the approximately 10 species of subfamily Psittacinae (the Old World or Afrotropical parrots) and 148 species of subfamily Arinae (the New World or Neotropical parrots), as well as several species that have gone extinct in recent centuries. Some of the most iconic birds in the world are represented here, such as the blue-and-gold macaw among the New World parrots and the African grey parrot among the Old World parrots. These parrots are found in tropical and subtropical zones and inhabit Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean islands, sub-Saharan Africa and the island of Madagascar, and the Arabian Peninsula. Two parrots, one extinct, formerly inhabited North America.
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Magpie-robin The magpie-robins or shamas (from "shama", Bengali and Hindi for "C. malabaricus") are medium-sized insectivorous birds (some also eat berries and other fruit) in the genus Copsychus. They were formerly in the thrush family Turdidae, but are now treated as part of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. The Seychelles magpie-robin is one of the most endangered birds in the world, with a population of less than 250, although this is a notable increase from just 16 in 1970.
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Green parakeet The green parakeet ("Psittacara holochlorus") is a medium-sized parrot that is native to Central America, from the southernmost tip of Texas south to northern Nicaragua. This species was formerly placed in the genus Aratinga as "A. holochlora" and divided into various subspecies ("A. h. holochlora, A. h. brevipes, A. h. brewsteri, A. h. strenua," and "A. h. rubritorquis"). Later it was split into three species as green conure ("A. holochlora"), pacific conure ("A. strenua"), and Socorro conure ("A. brevipes"). Today it is recognised as single species with a highly threatened subspecies ("Psittacara holochlorus brevipes") endemic to Socorro in the Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico.