Charming, with bright plumage birds have long won the love of man. Parrots reciprocate, and one of the few birds on the planet who trust people.
Parrots have an amazing ability to reproduce various sounds, including imitate human speech. Undoubtedly, the most beautiful parrots are an adornment of the wild. Amazing and peculiar birds often become pets, as well as the pride of world zoos.
Here are the most beautiful types of parrots according to most-beauty.ru:
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Nestor Kaka
The parrot with an unusual species name lives in the mountain forests of New Zealand.
The plumage of Nestor Kara is dark brown with an amazing olive hue. The head is covered with gray feathers, and on the back of the head there is a red band.
Parrots of this species love to spend time among the tops of tall trees and rarely go down to the ground. Parrots have a brush on their tongue with which they suck out nectar from flowers.
2
Budgerigar
The most popular species of the parrot family on Earth - the budgerigar, is a native of Australia.
The parrot has a bright peculiar plumage. In search of food, travels long distances. Of the special properties of this bird is the ability to memorize and reproduce various sounds. It easily remembers words and phrases, but pronounces them without a logical connection.
As an interesting fact, it can be noted that today in captivity there are more wavy parrots than in the wild.
3
Sulfur-crested Cockatoo
One of the largest representatives of the cockatoo family, a large yellow-crested cockatoo chose the coast of Australia, Papua New Guinea, Tasmania and Kangaroo for living.
A beautiful bird with white plumage is distinguished by a yellowish holochka on its head. It is a collective bird, their flocks number 60–80 individuals.
It quickly becomes attached to a person and is easy to train. Parrots of this type of cockatoo can often be found performing in the circus arena.
4
Arantiga Endaya
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This colorful and bright bird nests mainly in Brazil. It feeds on seeds, fruits of trees. Arantiga Endaya is also a frequent visitor to corn fields.
Parrots live, except for the mating season, in small flocks choosing the highest trees, where they arrange their nests.
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Rocky (Patagonian) Parrot
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A parrot, amazing in color of feathers, lodges in the uninhabited places of the foothills of the South American Andes.
They try not to keep them at home because of a sharp, sometimes unpleasant and loud voice. But in the zoos, the Patagonian parrot feels great.
It can learn a few words and is distinguished by a trusting attitude to a person.
6
Wide-tailed lory
Six species of these beautiful and charming parrots live in the wild. The tail is an unusual rounded shape with wide steering feathers.
In plumage feathers of saturated red color stand out. The favorite delicacy of brightly colored birds in nature is nectar and juice of tropical fruits. In captivity, a person tries to maintain this diet with the addition of seeds and small fruits.
7
Bronze winged parrot
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A feathered inhabitant of moist deciduous forests lives on the territory of small states of the north of Latin America.
This parrot species has a dark color with a blue tint. The supra-tail part and the tail of the bird itself are bright blue, and the rounded beak is bright yellow.
Bronze-winged parrots live in small flocks. In search of food, they often fly from place to place. By the way, on our site most-beauty.ru you can get acquainted with the most beautiful birds of our planet.
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Yellow cheek rosella
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The smallest rosella bird has settled in southern Australia and the islands closest to the continent.
Birds have a bright red, green and black color. On the cheeks there are bright yellow spots, which determined the name of the small parrot.
Flocks of yellow-cheeked rosella are a real disaster for local farmers. But, despite the harm caused by beautiful birds, people do not pursue them.
9
Solar aratinga
A parrot with a cheerful, romantic name nests in the palm groves and savannas of South America.
Among the brothers we recognize the bright yellow color of the feathers. On the head near the eyes, the parrot has orange circles. The long feathers of the wings and tail are brightly colored with dark green shades.
Acquaintance with Europe, the bird began in London. It was in this city that Solar Aratinga was first brought in 1862.
10
Fan parrot
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A parrot with an unusual plumage in the form of a fan on the back of the head lives in South America. During irritation, the moving feathers of the back of the head rise like a collar.
This bird lives away from human habitation in remote tropical forests.
Often becomes a pet due to the calm nature. He gets used to a person, fully trusting him, and quickly becomes tame.
11
Multicolor Lorikeet
An amazing bird gathered all the colors of the rainbow in the color of its plumage. Even the lorikeet's beak is of the original orange color.
A handsome man lives on the islands of Oceania and in the northern and eastern parts of Australia.
In addition to eucalyptus forests, they settle in cities on trees in the immediate vicinity of human habitation.
Due to its unusual color, this type of parrot is the most popular in European zoos.
12
Corella
Corella belongs to the cockatoo genus, and like all representatives, wears an amazing crest on its head.
The charm of the bird is not only a crest, but also the plumage of a dark olive color with a gray tint. The head with all kinds of shades of feathers and a small beak, according to most-beauty.ru, also distinguishes the parrot from many other species.
The bird easily reproduces in captivity, which allowed a person to breed specimens of various colors.
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Helmeted Cockatoo
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This cockatoo with a bright orange head and crest nests in Australia.
The color of the head is very different from the color of the body, wings and tail. It lives mainly in eucalyptus forests at an altitude of about 1,500–2,000 meters above sea level.
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Ara
Perhaps the most beautiful genus of the parrot family is Ara. These beautiful parrots have bright, saturated colors of feathers. In nature, you can find parrots with red, yellow, green and blue color.
The pride of this parrot is its beautiful beak, which is also the strongest on Earth among the entire bird class.
Ara feel great in captivity and are able to live up to 75 years. They quickly get used to the person. Documents confirm that these parrots were kept in their homes by the Indians of pre-Columbian America.
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Cockatoo Inca
This amazingly beautiful parrot nests in eucalyptus forests in the south and west of the Green Continent. This is a rare species on the planet, as it is often crowded out from the habitat of other birds.
Abdomen and back of the Inca Cockatoo have a delicate light pink color feathers, white wings. The crest on the head has a bright color of red-yellow stripes.
Kakadu Inca is protected in all states of Australia. Catching and selling this bird worldwide is prohibited.
Conclusion
As you can see, nature generously endowed the family of parrots with a bright, unusual and sometimes provocative color of plumage. Of all the birds, parrots with their habits, the ability to imitate various sounds became the pride of not only zoos, circuses, pets. Some of them have become real stars of the Internet.
We are sure that each of you has also met more beautiful specimens of parrots. We will be glad to meet in the comments to our article with the new beauties of an amazing family of parrots. The editors of most-beauty.ru are waiting for your comments.
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