parrot

📅 Updated:2026-09-02

🕒 Created:2016-01-28

🆔 ID:9994

Description

A [color=species]parrot[/color] is any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds with a curved beak belonging to the order [color=species]Psittaciformes[/color], as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.

Partial Taxonomy

Superfamily Cacatuoidea — cockatoo

Family Cacatuidae
- Subfamily Cacatuinae
  - Tribe Cacatuini
  - Tribe Microglossini — black palm cockatoo
- Subfamily Calyptorhynchinae — black cockatoo
- Subfamily Nymphicinae — cockatiel

Superfamily Psittacoidea — true parrot

Family Psittacidae — holotropical parrot
- Subfamily Arinae — neotropical parrot
  - Tribe Arini
  - Tribe Androglossini
  - Tribe Forpini
- Subfamily Psittacinae — Afrotropical parrot
Family Psittaculidae — Old World parrot
- Subfamily Agapornithinae
- Subfamily Coracopsinae — vasa parrot
- Subfamily Loriinae
  - Tribe Cyclopsittini — fig parrot
  - Tribe Loriini — lorikeet
  - Tribe Melopsittacini — budgerigar
- Subfamily Platycercinae
  - Tribe Pezoporini
  - Tribe Platycercini — broad-tailed parrot
- Subfamily Psittacellinae — tiger parrot
- Subfamily Psittaculinae
  - Tribe Micropsittini — pygmy parrot
  - Tribe Polytelini
  - Tribe Psittaculini
- Subfamily Psittrichasinae — Pesquet's parrot