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Pressures on wild parrot populations and the role of aviculture -- Selecting the species to breed -- Parrot husbandry -- Incubation -- Hand-rearing -- Parrot chicks -- Bird marking systems -- Mutations -- Selecting a pet parrot and keeping it healthy -- Taming -- Species account -- Lories and lorikeets: the brush-tongued parrots -- Cockatoos -- Nestors -- Fig parrots -- Blue-rumped parrot Psittinus cyanurus -- Tanygnathus parrots -- Eclectus parrots Eclectus roratus -- Pesquet's parrot Psittrichas fulgidus -- Shining parrots Prosopeia spp. Australian broad-tailed parrots -- Red-capped parrot Purpureicephalus spurius -- New Zealand and New Caledonian parakeets -- Neophema parrots -- Swift parrots Lathamus discolor -- Budgerigars Melopsittacus undulatus -- Pezoporus, geopsittacus and strigops: the night parrots -- Vasa parrots Coracopsis spp. -- African parrots (genera: Psittacus and Poicephalus) -- Lovebirds Agapornis spp. -- Hanging parrots Loriculus spp. -- Psittacula parakeets -- Macaws, conures and related parrots -- Bolborhynchus parakeets -- Parrotlets -- Brotogeris, the Tui parakeets. Caiques Pionites spp. -- Pionopsitta parrots -- Short-tailed parrot Graydidascalus brachyurus -- Pionus parrots -- Amazon parrots Amazona spp. -- Hawk-headed parrots Deroptyus accipitrinus -- Purple-bellied parrot Triclaria malachitacea -- Unknowns -- Sexually dimorphic species -- Magazines dedicated to parrots. |