parakeet: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	parrakeet

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rose-ringed parakeet

A female Rose-ringed Parakeet (Psittacula krameri) with green plumage and a red beak perches on a budding tree branch in a spring landscape.

Two green and yellow budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) perched side by side on a branch, facing each other.

monk parakeet; feral

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