PSITTACIFORMES
Psittacidae
(Parrots)
all
these parrots are wild or feral populations
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Species photographed:
1. mitred parakeet
2. red-faced parakeet
3. white-eyed parakeet
4. monk parakeet
5. black-hooded parakeet
6. blue-crowned parakeet
7. blue and yellow macaw
8. chestnut-fronted macaw
9. yellow-chevroned parakeet |
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mitred parakeet, Kendall, Miami, FL, USA
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white-eyed parakeet (Aratinga leucopthalmus).
These were outside my apartment.
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Blue and yellow
macaw (Ara
macao
) in Coral Gables, Florida, USA. This individual was in
someone’s front yard, drinking coconut water.
There is at least 7 individuals in Coral
Gables and South Miami.
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Monk parakeets (Myiopsitta
monachus), Miami, FL. 5 May 2007 I saw them on the side
of the road while at a stop light.
I quickly pulled out my camera and took this
picture through the passenger
side window. This
is the first time I have seen monks feeding on the ground.
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Black-hooded
parakeets (Nandayus
nenday),
Dania, FL, USA. These
parakeets were in a empty lot while I drove by.
I quickly pulled down a side street and took a
picture.
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blue-crowned
parakeet (Aratinga
acuticaudata), Evergreen Cemetery, Ft Lauderdale, FL, USA
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Red-masked
parakeet (Aratinga
erythrogenys) and white-eyed parakeet (Aratinga
leucopthalmus ), University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
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mitred parakeets, Miami, FL, 2009.
Mitred parakeets live in large numbers in Kendall near the Dadeland
Mall. In the palm trees directly west of the mall along Kendall Drive
next to 826, the parakeets come in the evening to roost. I saw about
500 at one time circling the palm trees as they prepared to roost. In
the Kings Creek apartment complex, parakeets are always there perched
on buildings or trees. I have seen juveniles, but I have yet to
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yellow-chevroned parakeet, Fairchild Biological Garden, 2009.
I am always curious what parrots are doing in the city to survive and
even flourish in the case of some species such as the yellow-chevroned
parakeet. Urban landscapes provide a completely different habitat
than what they natively inhabit, so they have
to find new food plants and shelter. I am not sure if this
parakeet
is eating something or finding nesting material. Unfortunately I am not
familiar with this fruit, so I do not know if the inside of the
fruit is fleshy or just fibrous like cotton. I only saw it remove
contton-like fibers, in which it did not seem
interested. I think that it was looking for something
else inside the fruit. |
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Top: mitred parakeet
Bottom: flock of mitred parakeets feeding on fruits in a tree
Kendall, Miami, FL, USA |
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Mitred parakeet (top) and red-masked parakeet (Aratinga erythrogenys,
below).
Several red-masks and a few mitred and white-eyed parakeets were eating
the seeds
of the Florida black olive (Bucida
buceras) in
front of my house. I have never been able to get close enough to take a
picture or even look at red-masked, white-eyed, or mitred parakeets on
any other occasion than when eating black olive seeds.
The mitred parakeet (top) looks like it may be red-masked
- mitred hybrid.
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Yellow-chevroned
parakeets (Brotogeris
chiriri) in a palm tree on the University of Miami
campus in Miami, Florida, USA. They
come to these palm trees nearly every morning to collect fibers for, I
assume, their nest. They
also must be eating something, but I have
not discovered what.
The palms did not have any fruit.
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Chestnut-fronted
macaw (Ara
severa),
Evergreen Cemetery, Ft Lauderdale, FL, USA.
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Mitred parakeet
(Aratinga mitrata), Kendall,
Dade County, FL, USA
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Red-masked
parakeet (Aratinga
erythrogenys), University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
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