Parrot’ s family
T
He Parrots are a very large family of easily recognized birds, generally restricted to the tropics around the globe. They range from huge macaws, exemplified by the spectacular Scarlet
Macaw of the Neutrophils( above) to tiny parrot lets and lovebirds, represented here by a pair of
Rosy-faced Lovebirds( left) from southwestern Africa.
Parrots are a vast and interesting lot. It seems clear that they are distinct from other types of birds, and yet there has been much debate about their relationships. The most recent evidence tends to split the psittiformes into 3 or 4 families. For the moment, I follow here the approach used by Christakis & Boles( 2008) and set out three families: the Nestorian [ three New Zealand parrots ], the Cacatuidae [ Cockatoos ], and the rest of them here, in the Psitticidae. The division between cockatoos and the rest has been in place for a decade( e. g., Collar 1997), but the split of the New Zealand set is new. It may be that lories and lorikeets are a distinct lineage, but the parameters are not well resolved, so for now they are a subfamily( Loraine). The remaining Psittacidae has 181 species in the Old World, and 148 species in the New World.. Recourse: creagrus. home. montereybay. com /
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