Green is the most common color among parrots, allowing them to blend in with their surroundings. This excellent camouflage helps them avoid predators.
List of Green Parrots
Parrots With Mostly Green Plumage
Many parrots naturally have extensively green plumage, with only a few differently colored feathers. These include:
- Red-shouldered Macaw
- Blue-fronted Amazon
- Yellow-headed Amazon
- Lilac-crowned Amazon
- Orange-winged Amazon
- Red-lored Amazon
- Southern Mealy Amazon
- White-fronted Amazon
- Yellow-crowned Amazon
- Yellow-naped Amazon
- White-eyed Parakeet
- Maroon-bellied Conure
- Mitred Conure
- Nanday Conure
- Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Pacific Parakeet
- Green-rumped Parrotlet
- Moluccan Eclectus (Male)
- Green Rosella
- Elegant Parrot
- Black-cheeked Lovebird
- Hispaniolan Amazon
- Mexican Parrotlet
- Blue-crowned Conure
- Goldie’s Lorikeet
- Dusky-billed Parrotlet
Parrots With Partially Green Plumage
The following parrots also have green feathers but in combination with prominent plumage of different colors:
- Great Green Macaw
- Military Macaw
- Rosy-faced Lovebird
- Cuban Amazon
- Black-capped Conure
- Green-cheeked Conure
- Burrowing Parrot
- Pearly Conure
- Senegal Parrot
- Australian Ringneck
- Musk Lorikeet
- Quaker Parrot
- Budgerigar
- Painted Parakeet
- White-winged Parakeet
- Yellow-faced Parrotlet
Besides these, there are green parrots that aren’t usually kept as pets, like the Kākāpō, which can only be found in a reserve in New Zealand.
How Do Green Parrots Get Their Color
The green plumage of parrots is a combination of pigments and structural colors. They produce their own color pigments called psittacofulvins, which can give off red, yellow, or orange colors. Also, the feather barbs of these birds have melanin particles, which scatter shortwave light, i.e., blue light. When the yellow color produced by the psittacofulvins mixes with the blue structural color, it makes the feathers of these parrots appear green.
FAQs
While all parrots can learn to talk if trained from a young age, among green parrots, Amazons are widely believed to be the most capable of learning how to talk and mimic human speech.
