What parrots have you seen?

[parrotkid]

Someone posted it on another forum and I have seen.... Well, They do call OZ the land of parrots for a reason!
Ok, so I've seen..

Sulphur Crested Cockatoo (wild)
Red-tail black cockatoo (wild)
Major Mitchell cockatoo (wild)
Palm Cockatoo (zoo)
Yellow-Tailed Black cockatoo (Saw them just yesterday actually!)

Scaly Breasted Lorikeet (wild)
Red-collared Lorikeet (sanctuary)
Rainbow Lorikeet (Jewel and Wild)
Little Lorikeet (Wild)

King Parrot (wild)
Superb Parrot (wild)
Pale Headed Rosella (wild)
Budgie (wild and ex-pet and pet store)
Cockatiel (wild, ex-pet and pet store)

Eclectus Parrots (sanctuary and Wild)

Now non-Australian parrots
Blue and Gold Macaw (sanctuary and my local zoo)
Green Winged macaw (sanctuary)
Sun Conure (sanctuary and pet store)
GCC (petrie and pet store)
Ringneck Parrot (pet store and Breeder)
Alexandrine (Pet store)
Lovebird (pet store)
Plum-headed parrot (pet store)
Painted Conure (Pet Store)
Maroon-Bellied Conure (Pet Store)

It sure is nice living in the land of parrots! LOL!

 

[Tom B]

The wild parrots ive seen are:

Hyacinth Macaw
B&G Macaw
Scarlet Macaw
Green wing Macaw

Blue fronted Amazon
Red lored Amazon

White crowned Pionus
White fronted Pionus

Black capped Caique

Dusky headed Conure
Blue crowned Conure
Mitred Conure
Red fronted Conure
White eyed Conure
Green cheek Conure
Nanday Conure

Yellow chevroned Parakeet

Quaker


Pacific Parrotlet
One other type of parrotlet but cant remember what its called

And then ones that i havnt seen in the wild are:

Blue throated Macaw
Scarlet shouldered Macaw

And budgies

Oh and next time i head down to London im making sure i dotn leave without seeing the indian ringnecks lol

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[macawpower58]

Caitlin, many of us have seen them all, or most of them! If not in person, then at least online. Way to many to list. You've seen a fair share yourself.

 

[Holiday]

Well, Caitlin is posting this question in Bird Watchers Road, so the assumption is she means seeing them in person, and most of the ones she listed were in the wild. If I answer about the ones I've seen in the wild, the answer would be zero. I've seen quite a few in zoos and pet stores. But, I'd love to go down to Bolivia and see the last of the RFMs in the wild.

 

[macawpower58]

In the wild would be 0 for me too.

I'm guessing an escaped budgie doesn't count?

 

[Tom B]

Bolivias good for parrots but if you really want to see lots go to the pantanal, i got about 2/3 of my list from there.

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[Holiday]

Bolivias good for parrots but if you really want to see lots go to the pantanal, i got about 2/3 of my list from there.

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It would be fun to see a lot of parrots, but I do have a specific interest in seeing the RFMs before there are none left in the wild. Not like it will really happen, though. I have to be here to watch the ones in my bird room

 

[staryberry]

This is just off the top of my head

Southern California:
Lilac Crowned Parrot (Wild, Feral Invasive)
Mitred Parakeet (Wild, Feral Invasive)
Red Crowned Parrot (Wild, Feral Invasive)
Yellow Chevroned Parakeet (Wild, Feral Invasive)

Costa Rica:
No Parrots, but several ramphastids
Collared Aracari (wild)
Emerald Toucanet (wild)
Chestnut Mandibled Toucan (wild)

Australia:
Gallah (wild)
Sulphur Crested Cockatoo (wild)
Rainbow Lorikeet (wild)
King Parrot (wild)
Red Tailed Black Cockatoo (wild)

 

[tozie12]

uummm.... lets... see here... lemme count.. number of parrots i've seen in the wild....

does Busch Gardens count?



oh. well then zero.

 

[itzmered]

I have seen a lilac crowned amazon, red lored amazon, I can't remember what type of conures they were I think they were dusky conures, and quite a few different toucans. These were all in Panama and Costa Rica. In Dominica we saw the Jaco and the Sisserou Parrots they are both Amazons and are endangered. We also saw several yellow billed parrots in Jamaica, I thought they looked very similar to a blue crowned conure. There were also all sorts of little guys there but we were not close enough to see what they actually were. They looked like parrotlets but not sure and all the guide could tell me was they were a "parakeet" In St Thomas we have seen numerous Brown Throated Conures Or St Thomas Conures and I hope to see them again in January.

 

[Tom B]

I just remembered, when we were in ecuador we saw the caiques in the jungle but then on the OTHER SIDE of the Andes we saw a pair of blue and white parrots, at first i thought they might be escaped Masked Lovebirds but they were acting like wild birds not pets and were caique size could they have been the blue mutation caique in the wild?

I think thsi image is from somewhere else on AA so sorry to whoevers image it is

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[cosmolove]

I've seen too many to name, it would be much easier to name the ones I haven't seen before. (If you're talking parrots including domesticated ones)

 

[itzmered]

I've seen too many to name, it would be much easier to name the ones I haven't seen before. (If you're talking parrots including domesticated ones)

I am pretty sure the OP is talking about seeing them in the wild

 

[cosmolove]

I am pretty sure the OP is talking about seeing them in the wild

In their post tho they talk about breeders they've seen and zoos as well which is why I thought domesticated as well.

 

[H110hawk]

This is just off the top of my head
Costa Rica:
No Parrots, but several ramphastids
Collared Aracari (wild)

We also saw a Collared Aracari in Mindo, Ecuador!

 

[Taz93]

I have seen (cant remember them all):

Sulpher crested cockatoo
Yellow tail black cockatoo
Galah
Little corella
Rainbow lorikeets,
Eastern rosella
King parrot
Grass parrot (red rumped)

Possibly more, I just haven't noticed or couldn't identify.

 

[daria]

We and 60 other birders from either the Audubon or The Bird Lovers Club saw 36 varieties of wild free flying parrots during our ANNUAL Parrot Field trip last December-( always held the first Saturday of the month). It's always led by our local ( and world) parrot expert Paul Bithorn. Highlights were the blue and yellow macaws, a flock of +50 severe macaws, orange winged amazons, white eyed parakeets, cherry headed conures, also some exotics red whiskered bulboa (sp?), rock pigeons, Egyptian geese etc. Here is a picture of one of the wild macaws in my backyard . They are still coming every day- notice the walnut the macaw is eating.

 

[daria]

Notice the date -3 days ago. Took one last night with my phone too but it is a little blurry.

 

[sodakat]

I just remembered, when we were in ecuador we saw the caiques in the jungle but then on the OTHER SIDE of the Andes we saw a pair of blue and white parrots, at first i thought they might be escaped Masked Lovebirds but they were acting like wild birds not pets and were caique size could they have been the blue mutation caique in the wild?

I think thsi image is from somewhere else on AA so sorry to whoevers image it is

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This is super interesting to me, Tom. I've never seen a caique in person and had no idea they are small enough to be mistaken for a lovebird (size-wise).

 

[Tom B]

There not really, but at the time i didnt know that they had that mutation and the fact that they were so far away from the jungle was really weird
We also saw them when we were in teh jungle and theyre really playful when we were watching them two started hanging by a branch play-fighting with another one standing on the branch bending over watching them

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