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Parrot''Many: see text.'' A parrot is any of the many birds belonging to the family (biology) Psittacidae. Parrots have a characteristic curved beak shape with the upper mandible having slight mobility in the joint with the skull and a generally erect stance. All parrots are zygodactyl, having the four toes on each foot placed two at the front and two back. Along with the cockatoo family (the Cacatuidae), the parrot family makes up the order (biology) Psittaciformes. Confusingly, the term "parrot" can be used in either the narrow sense of the parrot family Psittacidae or the broad sense of the order Psittaciformes. Birds of the parrot family can be found in most of the warm parts of the world, including India, South East Asia and West Africa, with one species, now extinct, in the United States (the Carolina Parakeet). By far the greatest number of parrot species, however, come from Australasia, South America and Central America. Many species can imitate human speech or other sounds, and at least one researcher, Irene Pepperberg, has made controversial claims for the learning ability of one species; an African Grey Parrot Alex (parrot), has been trained to use words to identify objects, describe them, count them, and even answer complex questions such as "How many red squares?" (with over 80% accuracy). Other scholars claim that parrots are only repeating words with no idea of their meanings and point to Pepperberg's results as being nothing but an expression of operant conditioning. Parrots are kept as pets. Often the wings of such birds are clipped, but many people keep flighted pet parrots, allowing the birds to roam their homes. Some parrots, including the conures, macaws, amazon_parrots, cockatoos, cockatiels, and budgerigars are said to make good family pets. While they can be rewarding, they are also quite demanding. Intellectually and emotionally they are surprisingly like two year old humans - imagine having a two year old for 50 years. Cockatiels and budgies are often considered good birds for beginners (they cost less, do not live as long, and less likely to take over than some of the larger birds). Information on care can be found at How to care for a pet cockatoo. The very attractiveness of parrots as pets has led to a thriving - often illegal - trade in the birds, some species of which are now threatened with extinction. The scale of the problem can be appreciated when one considers the Tony Silva case, in which a world-renowned parrot expert and former director at Tenerife's Loro Parque (Europe's largest parrot park) was jailed in the US for 82 months and fined $100,000 for smuggling the birds [http://www.wwf.org.uk/filelibrary/pdf/crime_and_punishment.pdf 1]. The case rocked conservationist and ornithological circles, leading to calls for greater protection and control over trade in the birds. Escaped parrots, like other exotic animals, can also represent a potential threat to local ecosystems if they become established in the wild. This is now occurring in Spain, in both Barcelona and Tenerife. == Species list == Species list of parrots sorted: *list of parrots *list of parrots (subfamily) ==Books== * Bruce Thomas Boehner - ''Parrot Culture. Our 2.500-year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird'' (2004) == External links == * [http://www.thepiratesparrot.com/free.htm Articles about flighted parrot-keeping] * [http://www.natew.com/birds/articles/Recall.html Teaching parrots to fly to you on cue] * [http://www.natew.com/birds/articles/BehaviorModification.html Modifying parrot behavior] through operant conditioning * [http://www.parrotchronicles.com/mayjune2003/freeflight.htm Free Birds] Stories of flighted parrot-keeping * [http://psittacidae.blogspot.com Parrot-related news and views from around the world] * [http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/ Tinkerbell - a flighted CAG parrot in Taiwan and how to keep a flighted parrot at home] Parrots mg:Boloky th:นกแก้ว Parrot==Parrot (computing)== Maybe we also need some disambiguation of the Parrot interpreter currently under development for the Perl 6 programming language? PML. Good point. Logically, that should go under Parrot (programming language) .... er ... it's not actually a language, is it. Some variant of that in any case. I'm three parts persuaded that the parrot, parrot (order), and parrot (family) structure some idiot inflicted on us needs to be revised in any case. User:Tannin :IMHO, I think it would be a good idea, if only to give consistency with other bird articles. As for the computer bit, to an IT-idiot like me, it might as well be a Norwegian Blue Parrot (LOL) User:Jimfbleak 15:26 27 May 2003 (UTC) : So .... I made the link for you. You going to write the species account now? User:Tannin : (Lucky Ed's not around!) :: I need to do the research first User:Jimfbleak 15:48 27 May 2003 (UTC) :::I've done the article, but need help with the taxobox User:Jimfbleak 16:17 27 May 2003 (UTC) :::: ''Norvegicus azurus'', or something like that? -- User:JohnOwens 16:19 27 May 2003 (UTC) ==Parrot (family) and Parrot (order)== Am I missing something? Is there a reason we have Parrot (family) and Parrot (order) at all? Why not just move them to Psittaciformes and Psittacidae. Then the disambig can point to those. I didn't do an extensive search, but it seems that using the taxonomic name as the real link is standard. If no one objects, I'll make the change later today. - User:UtherSRG 13:20, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC) :There are a lot of links to these articles which will have to be repointed. I make it about 24 to the family and another dozen to the order. User:Jimfbleak 13:45, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)[User:Jimfbleak|jimfbleak]] 13:42, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC) ::Is that the only reason? Look at my list of contributions. A great number are for fixing links because of moves that needed to be done. - User:UtherSRG 13:56, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC) :::It's not an objection, it's just that our paths haven't crossed and I just wanted to reassure myself that you knew what you were doing. Although I've written hundreds of bird articles, I've only ever seen about five species of parrot in the wild, and that's including Monk Parakeet on a trip to Florida, so I'm not too concerned otherwise. Jim. ::::Ah. Cool. I'm a RecentChange watcher, and saw Parrot (order), wondered what it was, and found the abberration. Knowing that there sometimes are good reasons for unconventional article names, I wanted to ask before blindly moving the articles. I'll move them in about an hour on my lunch break. - User:UtherSRG 16:07, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC) The pages stay as is. Common name over rides scientific name. Later on I'll fix the links pointing to Psittaciformes and Psittacidae. - User:UtherSRG 18:08, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC) UtherSRG is right. The present page names suck. I have intended to reorganise them to something better and more appropriate for some time: probably parrot for the parrots and Psittaciformes for the order. But please note that ''there is nothing wrong with redirects''. There is absolutely no reason to change good, simple links just because they arrive at the desired page via a redirect. User:Tannin 21:32, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC) : In fact, I might as well do it now. User:Tannin ::Ok. I like the way the split is now. Homever there is something wrong with redirects. It is valuable to have all links on one page to become 'visited' at the same time. [[Parrot] and parrot (family) (which redirects to parrot) do not both get marked as 'visited' when one of the links is clicked. Users seeing the 'unvisted' link will think there is more data there. It's a minor annoyance, but one I'm willing to take the time to fix. - User:UtherSRG 15:41, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC) ::: On the surface of things, I agree, Uther. However, whenever we do that, we remove information from the database. Many links that arrive via a redirect actually indicate a subtle shift of meaning. bird and Aves are not quite the same thing. Right now, we have the technical term ''Aves'' as a redirect to bird - but it is possible that the redirect will one day be replaced with a seperate article. If that ever happens, then it will be an absolutely massive job to sort out the mixed up links - so massive that no-one would ever do it, not even you. ::: OK, that particular one might not be a good example, as I don't think that particular article is likely to be written, but you get the idea: redirects contain some meaning in and of themselves, and very often the information that is contained in them would be very, very difficult to reproduce. Hand-repointing them is essentially a kludge. A much, ''much'' better way of dealing with the visited pages bug (which annoys me too on a regular basis) would be to fix it once and for all by improving the Wiki software. Perhaps we should draw this to the attention of Tim Starling (one of the Wiki developers) and see what can be done. User:Tannin 21:46, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC) ::::Good points, and I agree for the most point. bird and Aves won't be split. If they are I'm confident that the split will be for non-Aves related reasons (such as a disambig page). I think contacting Tim would be a great idea. - User:UtherSRG 00:53, 7 Jan 2004 (UTC) == Species list == Looks like the species list is incomplete. There are more macaw species listed on that article than are listed here. Since I'm not well versed in ornithology, I'm hoping someone else will correct one or both of the lists. Otherwise, I'll add the additional species to this list sometime later in the week. - User:UtherSRG 13:57, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC) :The list of species, assuming it was done by me (can't remember), will be a complete listing as given by ''Handbook of the Birds of the World'', our standard. :Discrepancies could be due to :*HBW does not list the extinct species :*The source for the macaw article uses different taxonomy :*alternative names - see the discussion between User_talk:jimfbleak and User_talk:Wild Bill. User:jimfbleak ::I wasn't even loking at the common names, just the scientific names. Macaw has more. If HBW is the final authority on our bird articles, then the macaw article should be changed to list only the macaws found on the parrot page. - User:UtherSRG 16:56, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC) :::I've changed some of the genera to ''HBW'', which helps, but doesn't give an exact match still - I also don't like the alphabetical original listing. Should I replace the original list with a copy of the relevant part of HBW, plus the extinct species? User:jimfbleak ::::Ah... I'd missed those other three genera. I must be going batty. I'lltake a stab at it. - User:UtherSRG 11:22, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC) ---- Isn't the species list already covered by List of parrots? If it is, why not remove the list from this page and simply provide a link to list of parrots? Is there some subtle difference between the lists that I am missing? --User:Ardonik 23:52, 2004 Aug 6 (UTC) :one list is taxonomic, but because there are so many species, I did an alphabetical list for ease of reference - no strong feelings, delete alpha list if it is a problem User:Jimfbleak 04:18, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC) ==Cockatoos== Cockatoos are a family of their own? Since when? The last time that I checked, the only group of parrots suggested as a seperart family were the lories and lorikeets or brush tongued birds, and that was several years ago. Since then, I'd thought that they were all considered one family until their relationships could be better understood. It seems rather odd that the cockatoos would be already distinguished as a seperate family, and much more likely that it's one of those incindences where somebody decided to create familiar names for every general group of parrots (i.e. conures in one family, Cockatoos in another, Macaws in another, Amazons in a family of their own, etc.) Does anybody have the actual story on this? --User:Quintucket 03:07, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC) :Cacatuidae is recognised by ''Handbook of Birds of the World'' and by the ''Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Birds'', which are the two standard sources for Wikipedia species' lists. User:Jimfbleak 16:40, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC) :: Err, bit late in the day for this, but try reading cockatoo. As you'll see, they are quite different. User:Tannin 09:29, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC) :: In common English usage, cockatoos are are a subset of parrots. The other parrot-related pages here at wikipedia bear this out - even the Parrot page contains the phrase "types of parrots, including ... cockatoos." Maintaining consistency will be an uphill battle if you want cockaoos portrayed as non-parrots, since most people English speakers familiar enough with parrots and/or cockatoos to contribute to Wikipedia will be writing about cockatoos as a subset of parrots. (NateW Jan 10 2005) ==Editorial Comment?== "given the nature of Pepperberg's actual tests, this is ludicrous." This seems to be an editorial comment. Is it appropriate? :I agree. I've removed the comment. - User:UtherSRG 16:33, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC) == Unidentified parrot species == I have added three parrot pictures, but I don't know what species they are. If anyone of you could tell me, I'd be most grateful. The pictures are :Image:Buberel Gray parrot.jpg, :Image:Buberel green parrot.jpg, and :Image:Buberel White parrot.jpg. 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