Where else in priorode can see so many bright colors, in colors feathers parrot?
And what else could surprise us with a multi-faceted nature?No one is indifferent to the amazing fabulous exotic bird - a parrot.There just sometimes they can not be found!With a variety of bright plumage, speakers, vociferous ... The miracle of nature!
How many parrot species exist in the world?What vast areas of the earth they live?What is their lifestyle and what they eat?All this briefly try to tell in this article.
How many parrot species exist in the world?Habitats
Parrot - a common name for members of the order Psittaciformes.It consists of a large number of species of beautiful and brightly colored, common throughout the tropical birds.
These birds are usually divided into two families: cockatoo parrots and simple.However, there are sources that adhere to divide them into three families.
is very difficult to calculate how many parrot species exist in nature, and how many of them all.
Parrots are mainly distributed in South Africa, Asia (Northern), Australia and the islands of the Malay (a little more than 100 species).
Characteristics, description, species.The similarity and difference from other types of parrots birds
How many species of parrots in the world!These wonderfully beautiful exotic birds with unusual bright colors are very attractive and even smarter.
Any parrot large head and short neck, strong legs, the front and rear parts of which are located two fingers to facilitate the process of moving and jumping.Their beaks are thick and strongly curved.Usually, these birds live in different trees, and they feed on seeds and fruit.
Parrots have several traits related with doves and cuckoos.Just like the birds, parrots feed their babies by regurgitation.And they have nostrils at the base of the beak.
There parrots feature.Thanks to a special voice box, they can produce a wide range of sounds, and some species of parrots can even learn to imitate the human voice.The most capable in this regard - African gray parrots (Psittacus erithacus) parrots and Amazons (genus Amazona).
Dimensions parrots range from 9 cm (pygmy from South Pacific) to 1 meter (the South American Amazon).And the structure of all the most diverse - from the stocky lovebirds (fancy Lovebird) to small lories and cockatoos.
on their heads unusually brightly colored feathers (yellow and blue), and the body can have their green, red, yellow, white and even black.
impression is that many parrot species exist in the world (photo shows their diversity), and a variety of colors so much of their feathers, and even more, because a parrot can contrast an amazing array of colorful hues.For example, only the Australian cockatoos can be with bright pink, white, yellow or even black tufted with a completely different color feathers on the body.
In the same small Australian parrots feathers are grayish-yellow color.
Many of these amazing birds are named in accordance with its bright color.For example, the red macaw, red and green macaws and gold macaw blue.
families, subfamilies
researchers divided the birds into two families: the parrots and cockatoos.Kakadu earlier classification considered as a subfamily.
How many parrot species exist in the world?The cockatoo parrot family and more than 350 species of 27 of them are listed as endangered by IUCN.The family of cockatoos includes three subfamilies: chernoklyuvye (palm), black (shlemonosnye, cockatiels, mourning) and white (pink, Inca and cockatoos).Parrot family includes five subfamilies.Their main representatives - these parrots, Nestor, owl parrots, lories and pygmy parrot.
Power
parrots feed on mainly nuts, grains, vegetables, fruits and herbs;they drink water.Only New Zealand parrot Kea sometimes eats carrion winter periods.
Scientists ornithologists today counted (roughly) how many species of parrots there.In the world of them according to some (as noted above) of more than 350 species, and more than 80 species.
most common and well-known of them the following species of parrots - (in order of popularity): wavy, Amazon, cockatiels, cockatoos, Rosella, ozherelovye, lovebirds, burohvostye Greys, macaws.
