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parakeet
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
parakeet or parrakeet, common name...popular as cage birds. Parakeets have long, pointed tails...shell, zebra, or grass, parakeet ( Melopsittacus undulatus...the best known of the true parakeets. The wild budgerigar of...
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Carolina parakeet
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Carolina parakeet small, long-tailed bird, Canuropsis...now believed extinct. The Carolina parakeet was the northernmost representative of...20th cent. A fruit eater, the Carolina parakeet was an agricultural pest and was therefore...
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Parrots
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Parrots Parrots, macaws, lories, parakeets, and related birds, known collectively as psittacids, are...America, although one previously abundant species, the Carolina parakeet, is recently extinct. Parrots are arboreal birds, living...
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budgerigar
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
budgerigar ( parakeet ) Small, brightly coloured seed- eating parrot native to Australia. A popular pet, it can be taught to mimic speech. The sexes...
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parrot
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...birds. Parrots are brightly coloured and have thick, hooked bills. They include budgerigars , macaws, lories, lorikeets, parakeets, keas, kakapos, and others. In the wild they nest in tree holes, rock cracks or on the ground. Length: 7.5–...
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Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
...one such substance. Besides pigeons, the disorder may follow exposure to ducks, geese, pheasants, and even canaries. Parakeets produce an especially severe form of disease. Most patients are middle-aged women, who usually care for birds either at...
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parrakeet
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
parrakeet see parakeet .
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Chlamydial Pneumonia
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
...six weeks after delivery. Chlamydia psittaci is a bacteria carried by many types of birds, including pigeons, canaries, parakeets, parrots, and some gulls. Humans acquire the bacteria through contact with dust from bird feathers, bird droppings, or...
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Parrot Fever
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
...psittacosis when it infects birds, is caused by Chlamydia psittaci . Pet birds in the parrot family, including parrots, parakeets, macaws, and cockatiels, are the most common carriers of the infection. Other birds that may also spread C. psittaci...
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Mauritius
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
...include the pink pigeon, Round Island boa and keel-scaled boa, green sea turtle, and Mauritius varieties of kestrel, parakeet, and fody. Endangered species on Rodrigues include distinctive varieties of brush warbler, fody, flying fox, and day gecko...
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