Bird’s eye view
- POSTED ON: 31 Aug, 2019
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- POSTED BY: Madhumitha Srinivasan
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Parrots are one of the most popular birds because they regularly feature in our popular culture, art, and history. In India especially, the native variety – green body with a red beak – is a recurring theme in Indian mythology and folktales. They are intelligent creatures and are popular as pets.
And yet, the survival of these colourful, chirpy birds is under threat. According to the Smithsonian magazine, a third of the world’s parrots face extinction due to a combination of habitat destruction and persistent poaching for the pet trade. “A November study, for instance, found that logging has decimated 99% of the African grey (Psittacus erithacus) population in Ghana, threatening wild numbers of one of the most iconic parrot species,” it states.
Parrot is the collective name for the roughly 393 species of birds in 92 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes. Most of them are found in tropical and subtropical regions (as marked on the map below).
Take a look at few unique and popular species of parrots that make their home in different parts of the world.