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Category: Birds
Red-lored Amazon
A green Amazon with a red patch around the beak, playful and intelligent.
Eclectus Parrot
Males bright green, females red and purple; gentle, calm, needing a high-fiber fruit diet.
Kea
A large alpine parrot, olive-green, famous for curiosity and mischievous problem-solving.
Pacific Parrotlet
One of the smallest parrots, chunky with a bold personality, a pocket pet.
Australian King Parrot
Males have red head and breast with green body, calm and friendly.
Rose-ringed Parakeet
A long-tailed green parakeet with a rose ring on the neck (males), highly adaptable, now feral in many cities.
Lorikeet
A rare nectar-feeding lorikeet with a green body and orange belly patch, critically endangered.
Kaka
A forest parrot of New Zealand, olive-brown with red underparts, curious and vocal.
Red-breasted Parakeet
A green parakeet with a red breast in males, social and often kept as a pet.
Mulga
A small colorful parrot with a scarlet chest and blue face, calm and easy to keep.
Rock Pigeon
The wild ancestor of the domestic pigeon, gray with iridescent neck and dark wing bars.
Domestic Pigeon
Domesticated descendant of the rock pigeon, bred in hundreds of colors and shapes.
Homing Pigeon
A trained domestic pigeon with extraordinary homing instinct, returning from hundreds of km.
Fancy Pigeon
Bred purely for appearance with frills, feathered feet or unusual head shapes.
Spotted Dove
A graceful dove with a black-and-white spotted nape, common in Asian gardens.
Eurasian Collared Dove
A pale dove with a black half-collar, now spread worldwide.
Wood Pigeon
A large chunky pigeon, gray-blue with white neck patch and wing bar.
Red Turtle Dove
A small slender dove, reddish back, blue-gray head and black collar.
Mourning Dove
A common North American dove with a long pointed tail and plaintive cooing call.
White-winged Dove
A gray-brown dove with a white wing patch and dark eye patch.
Nicobar Pigeon
A spectacular iridescent pigeon with long drooping hackles, the closest living relative of the dodo.
Emerald Dove
A small dove with brilliant emerald-green wings and orange-brown body.
Peregrine Falcon
The fastest animal in level flight, diving over 300 km/h, dark hood and pointed wings, worldwide.
Common Kestrel
A small falcon with rufous back and barred tail, famous for hovering while hunting.
