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Carolina parakeet

(Encyclopedia) Carolina parakeet, small, long-tailed bird, Canuropsis carolinensis, now believed extinct. The Carolina parakeet was the northernmost representative of the parrot family. It had green…

parrakeet

(Encyclopedia) parrakeet: see parakeet.

budgerigar

(Encyclopedia) budgerigarbudgerigarbŭjˈərēgärˌ [key]: see parakeet.

parakeet

(Encyclopedia) parakeet or parrakeet, common name for a widespread group of small parrots, native to the Indo-Malayan region and popular as cage birds. Parakeets have long, pointed tails, unlike the…

parrot

(Encyclopedia) parrot, common name for members of the order Psittaciformes, comprising nearly 400 species of colorful birds, pantropical in distribution, including the parakeets. Parrots have large…

Hui-tsung

(Encyclopedia) Hui-tsungHui-tsunghwē-dz&oomacr;ng [key], 1082–1135, Chinese emperor of the Northern Sung dynasty, painter, and a great patron of art. Politically he was a rather ineffectual ruler…

New First Pets

Spot, Ernie, and India go to Washington by Holly Hartman This article was posted on February 4, 2000. Socks on the podium in the White House briefing room. The former First Cat belongs to…