noun
definition
Any of various species of small parrot primarily of tropical regions.
Examples of parakeets in a Sentence
Parakeets are plentiful in the montes, and the lagoons swarm with waterfowl.
If you've been to Florida they have wonderful parakeets, which are taken over as our most prolific developing bird in the UK.
For many years feral or escaped ring-necked parakeets have actually been breeding around the London suburbs.
Then, out of the blue came a flock of very noisy austral parakeets.
Most breeders of Australian parakeets will be able to advise the beginner with dietary needs for the chosen species.
We'll search for Red-breasted parakeets, and other birds, within the resort grounds.
Continuing our walk behind the palace we came across some very smart looking Plum-headed parakeets that beckoned everyone to take photos.
We're also acting as an animal rehabilitation center currently with injured parakeets, a baby tapir and spider monkeys.
We 're also acting as an animal rehabilitation center currently with injured parakeets, a baby tapir and spider monkeys.
Along the track saw Red-crowned Parakeets (tick) and at the Brown Teal pond, 2 Brown Teal (tick) waddled up.
Parakeets (also known as budgies) cockatiels, canaries, African Greys, lovebirds and finches are some of the most popular birds available.
Parakeets are known for their liveliness, intense colors and are perfect for those that are new to bird ownership.
Bird species include colorful parrots, macaws, and parakeets, while reptiles in the snake house include pythons and boa constrictors, scorpions, iguanas, tarantulas, geckos, and more.
On the east coast peafowl are found, and throughout the interior the argus pheasant, the firebacked pheasant, the blue partridge, the adjutantbird, several kinds of heron and crane, duck, teal, cotton-teal, snipe, wood-pigeon, green-pigeon of several varieties, swifts, swallows pied-robins, hornbills, parakeets, fly-catchers, nightjars, and many other kinds of bird are met with frequently.
Caymans, water-hogs (capinchos), several kinds of deer (Cervus paludosus the largest), ounces, opossums, armadillos, vampires, the American ostrich, the ibis, the jabiru, various species popularly called partridges, the pato real or royal duck, the Palamedea cornuta, parrots and parakeets, are among the more notable forms. Insect life is peculiarly abundant; the red stump-like ant-hills are a feature in every landscape, and bees used to be kept in all the mission villages.
The avifauna resembles that of Madagascar; there are species of a peculiar genus of caterpillar shrikes (Campephagidae), as well as of the genera Pratincola, Hypsipetes, Phedina, Tchitrea, Zosterops, Foudia, Collocalia and Coracopsis, and peculiar forms of doves and parakeets.
There may also be mentioned 21 cuckoos, I cockatoo, 20 parrots and parakeets, 20 woodpeckers, barbets, broadbills, starlings, orioles, weaver-finches, larks, nuthatches, 28 beautifully coloured sun-birds, and 23 flower-peckers, titmice, shrikes, swallow-shrikes, tailor-birds, thrushes, fruit-thrushes, fairy blue-birds, fire-birds, 42 fly-catchers, 4 swallows, and 5 species of most beautifully coloured ant-thrushes, as well as a large number of birds for which English names cannot be readily supplied.
Vocal learners included species of finches, song sparrows, canaries, black-capped chickadees, parakeets and hummingbirds.
In the summer the forest is alive with nesting migrants such as the fabulous Paradise flycatcher, the Indian pitta and parakeets.
Did you see any of the ring necked parakeets.