Parrots of the Virgin Islands.

[Jayd]

[h=2]Parrots, macaws and allies[/h]Order: Psittaciformes Family: Psittacidae

Parrots are small to large birds with a characteristic curved beak. Their upper mandibles have slight mobility in the joint with the skull and they have a generally erect stance. All parrots are zygodactyl, having the four toes on each foot placed two at the front and two to the back.

 

• Brown-throated parakeet, Eupsittula pertinax (I)
  
• Monk parakeet, Myiopsitta monachus (A)
  
• Hispaniolan amazon, Amazona ventralis (I)
  

[Greywings]

The Brown throated look like they may be a close relative of our extinct Carolina Parakeet.

[Jayd]

Thank you, indeed...