Parrot Species

The Psittacidae or Parrot Family has as many as 352 members. Still growing in number, the Parrot family has numerous subspecies that have been added to the family tree, from time to time, with the identification of each. Below is a list of all the primary members, rare and common.

Hanging Parrots:

Vernal, Ceylon, Colasisi, Black Billed, Blue Crowned, Sulawesi, Moluccan, Sangir, Orange Fronted, Green Fronted, Red Billed, Yellow Throated, Wallace's.


Blue Crowned	Vernal	Sulawesi

Pygmy Parrots:

Buff Faced, Yellow Capped Geelvink, Meek's, Finsch's, Red Breasted.


Buff Faced Pygmy	Geelvink Pygmy	Meek's Pygmy

Fig Parrots:

Orange Breasted, Edwards's, Salvadori's, Double Eyed, Large, Guiabero.


Double Eyed Fig	Edward's Fig	Salvadori's Fig

African and Asian Parakeets:

Alexandrine, Ring Necked, Mauritius or Echo, Slaty Headed, Finsch's, Plum Headed, Blossom Headed, Intermediate, Malabar, Emerald Collared, Lord Derby's, Nicobar, Red Breasted, Long Tailed.


Nicobar	Lord Derby's	Alexandrine	Malabar	Slaty Headed	Plum Headed	Rose Breasted	Ringneck

Neotropical "Parakeets":

Sierra, Mountain, Barred, Andean, Fufous Fronted, Plain, Canary Winged, Grey Cheeked, Tovi, Cobalt Winged, Golden Winged, Tui


Barred	Cobalt Winged	Mountain	Sierra	Tovi	Tui

Parrotlets:

Mexican, Spectacled, Pacific, Yellow Faced, Dusky Billed, Green Rumped, Blue Winged, Tepui, Amazonian, Lilac Tailed, Scarlet Shouldered, Red Fronted, Red Winged, Sapphire Rumped, Brown Backed, Golden Tailed, Spot Winged.


Green Rumped	Blue Winged	Yellow Faced	Golden Tailed	Mexican

Macaws: Spixs, Lears, Blue Throated, Red Fronted, Hyacinth, Great Green or Buffons, Military, Green Wing, Blue and Gold, Scarlet, Yellow Collared, Chestnut Fronted or Severe, Red Bellied, Blue Winged or Illigers, Noble, Hahns and, Blue Headed, Glaucous (probably extinct).

Cockatoos: Palm, Glossy Black, Red Tailed Black, Yellow Tailed Black, White Tailed Black, Long Billed Black, Gang-Gang, Galah, Sulphur Crested, Pink or Leadbeaters, Yellow Crested or Sulphur Crested, Blue Eyed, Moluccan or Salmon Crested, Umbrella or White, Philippine or Red Vented, Goffins or Tanimbar, Ducorps, Long Billed Corella, Little Corella, Western Corella.

Lovebirds: Grey headed, Red Faced, Black Winged, Black Collared, Peach Faced, Fischer's, Yellow Collared, Nyasa, Black Cheeked.

Blue Crowned, Golden, Olive Throated, Red Fronted, Mitred, Red Masked White Eyed, Finsch's, Cuban Hispaniolan, Green, Socorro, Sun, Janday, Golden Capped, Peach Fronted, Dusky Headed, Orange Fronted, Brown Throated, Cactus, Black Hooked, Golden Plumed, Yellow Eared Parrot, Austral, Slender Billed, Blue Throated Maroon Bellied, Green Cheeked, White Eared, Painted, Crimson Bellied, Pearly, Santa Maria, Fiery Shouldered, Black Tailed, El Oro, White Breasted, Black Capped, Brown Breasted, Red Eared, Rose Crowned, Sulphur Winged.

Black Lory, Brown, Yellow Streaked, Cardinal, Dusky, Black Winged, Violet Necked, Red, Blue Streaked, Red and Blue, Blue Eared, Purple Bellied, Black Capped, White Naped, Yellow Bibbed, Purple Naped, Chattering.

Rainbow, Red Collared, Pohnpei, Ornate, Mindanao, Yellow and Green, Scaly Breasted, Olive Headed, Varied, Iris, Goldie's, Collared, Blue Crowned, Stephen's, Kuhl's, Ultramarine, Blue, Musk, Little, Purple Crowned, Palm, Red Chinned, Meek's, Blue Fronted, Pygmy, Striated, Red Fronted, Red Flanked, Red Throated New Caledonian, Duchess, Papuan, Josephine's, Fairy, Yellow Billed, Plum Faced, Orange Billed.

Pesquet's, Kea, Kaka, Kakapo, Blue Rumped, Painted Tiger, Brehm's Tiger, Modest Tiger, Madarasz'a Tiger, Red Cheecked, Blue Collared, Singing, Montane Racquet Tail, Mindanao Racquet Tail, Blue Headed Racquet Tail, Green Racquet Tail, Blue Winged Racquet Tail, Yellow Breasted Racquet Tail, Golden Mantled Racquet Tail, Blue Crowned Racquet Tail, Bubu Racquet Tail, Great Billed Parrot, Blue Naped, Blue Backed, Black Lored, Eclectus Parrot, Crimson Shining, Red Shining, Masked Shining, Australian King Parrot, Muluccan King, Pupuan King, Olive Shouldered, Red Winged, Superb, Regent, Red Capped Alexandra's, Port Lincoln Ringneck, Mallee Ringneck, Bluebonnet, Red Rumped, Mulga, Hooded, Golden Shouldered, Paradise, Bourke's, Antipodes Green Parakeet, Norfolk Island Parakeet, Red Fronted Parakeet, New Caledonian Parakeet, Yellow Fronted Parakeet, Horned Parakeet, Uvea Parakeet, Blue Winged, Elegant, Rock Orange Bellied, Turquoise Parrot, Scarlet Chested, Budgerigar, Swift, Cockatiel, Ground, Night, Vasa, Black, African Grey, Brown Necked, Jardine's, Senegal, Meyer's, Yellow Faced, Red Bellied, Brown Headed, Ruppell's Niaminiam.

Thick Billed Parrot, Maroon Fronted Parrot, Pantagonian Conure, Monk Parakeet, Black Headed Caique, White Bellied Caique, Saffron Headed, Brown Hooded, Rose Faced, Short Tailed, Orange Cheeked, Vulturine, Caica, Red Capped, Black Winged, Fuerte's, Red Faced, Blue Headed Parrot, White Crowned, Dusky, Scaly Headed, Speckle Faced, Red Billed, Bronze Winged, Hawk Headed, Purple Bellied.

Nature provides even more variations of colors - often beyond the scope of digital reproduction. The given list is not an exhaustive one but has been only a modest attempt to fairly represent the wide spectrum of colors that Parrots embody.