| Smaller parrots
live 10 to 15 years.
Parrots have large heads and
short necks.
Some American parrots are mostly
blue or yellow.
Most parrots are predominantly
green, especially the ones from South America.
Parrots weigh from just a few
ounces to 3½ pounds.
Parrots range in size from
the pygmy of the South Pacific which is only 3½ inches
long to the hyacinth macaw which is about 10 inches long.
Much of its length is in its long tail.
Parrots are divided into groups
such as cockatoos, lories, lovebirds, macaws, and parakeets.
Three hundred and twenty-eight
different species of parrots live on the Earth.
There are 315 species of parrot
in the world.
Parrots cannot eat chocolate
because it is poisonous to their body. |