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Parrots are typical climbing birds, with toe-shaped feet, two toes forward and two toes backwards, suitable for grasping, and the parrot's beak is strong and powerful, and can eat nuts. parrot
The psittaculate is found mainly in tropical, subtropical forests with brightly colored fruit-eating birds. The largest of the parrots is the purple-blue macaw, which can reach a length of up to 100 cm and is distributed in Bolivia and Brazil in South America. While common in some areas, mass entrapment for profit has put them under serious threat. The smallest is the blue-crowned short-tailed parrot living in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo, only 12 cm long, these parrots carry the nest material in a very special way, not with the curved and powerful beak, but with the nest material into the short tail feathers, and other couple parrots of the same kind also use this way to carry the material to build the nest. There are 6 species of pygmy parrots, all of which are within 10 cm in length. Six species are found only in New Guinea and nearby islands. This is the smallest of the order Parrots.
Parrots are found in tropical regions around the world. Some species in the Southern Hemisphere extend into temperate regions, while others are distributed as far away as possible
of the island. Parrots are the most diverse in Latin America and Oceania, and much less in Africa and Asia, but there are some well-known species in Africa, such as grey parrots, lovers parrots, and peony parrots. The most famous of the parrots in Latin America is the various large macaws. Parrots in Oceania are more diverse than in Latin America, with toes in the toe-toe type and second and third toes forward, including some of the most familiar, beautiful and unique parrots. Among them, Australia's tiger skin parrot and sunflower cockatoo are the most familiar parrots. New Zealand's Owl Parrots are large parrots that have lost their ability to fly, while New Zealand's Pecks have evolved a certain carnivorous tendency, and the Parrot is one of the most distributed parrots. Oceania's wide variety of honeyeaters is one of the most beautiful birds, such as fiji's blue-crowned honeyeater. Parrots are pets that people like to keep, and their wild populations are threatened as a result, and many species are endangered. There are only 7 species of parrots native to China, namely the large crimson-breasted parrot, the crimson-breasted parrot, the grey parrot, the flower-headed parrot, the red-collared green parrot, the long-tailed parrot, and the short-tailed parrot, all of which are national second-level protected wild animals.
The golden-capped cone-tailed parrot (scientific name: aratinga auricapillus) is a typical climbing bird with a strong and powerful beak, a curved beak, a movable joint on the upper jaw, and wax membranes at the base of the beak. Muscle mass tongue thickness. The feet are short, strong, toe-shaped, with two toes forward and two toes backwards, suitable for grasping and climbing life. The bird's body feathers are dark green , with orange tinges of red on the forehead , top of the head , and around the eyes; The cheeks are a little orange or golden. Late chicks. The main habitats are dry and semi-dry areas, tropical low-latitude forest areas, plains full of thorns and trees, and pine mountain forest areas. The main food is seeds, berries, fruits, nuts, insects and their larvae, usually in pairs, and in small groups during the breeding period, distributed in Brazil.