Where do most of the birds on Earth live?
Scientists think that there are about 9,500 species of birds in the world.
Birds are classified into 23 orders, such as passerines (song birds), accipters (eagles and hawks, for example), galliformes (game birds), and strigiformes (owls) etc.
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Why do parrots live so long?
Scientists knew that large birds and parrots live long lives, but now a new study reveals the mystery of parrot longevity.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany studied 217 parrot species (half of the known species of parrots), such as the Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) in South America and the Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita galerita) in Australia. They published their results in March 2022 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
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Which bird is the most talkative?
Some birds can imitate human speech, and they often know quite a lot of words. Of all of the bird species, parrots and parakeets can mimic human speech more than other bird species. But which parrot or parakeet is the most talkative?
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The Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) is a large bird in the Psittacidae family. It is a psittacine. It is also known as the Hyacinthine Macaw.
The Hyacinth Macaw is blue all over. Its eyerings are bright yellow, and an area underneath its beak is also bright yellow. Many species of Macaw are featherless on their cheeks, but the Hyacinth Macaw has feathers on its face. It has a large, strong, grey beak. It has a long, pointed tail. The Hyacinth Macaw, like other parrots, has its first and fourth toes pointing backwards.
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The Blue-and-Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna) is a long-tailed, colourful parrot. There are 19 different species of Macaws, native to Central America, Mexico, and South America.
The Blue-and-Yellow Macaw has bright blue wings and back of head, a brilliant yellow chest, a green cap, and a long tail. It has white cheeks, with black streaks and a black-feathered chin. Its cream eyes are surrounded by a black eye-ring. It has a large, strong grey beak with a white cere. It is one of the larger species of Macaws.