Photo by BarrytheBirder
I took the photo above of a section of wallpaper in the Raju Dining Room at The Delmanor Retirement Residence on Yonge Street in Aurora, Ontario, where I live. The bird portrayed intrigued me. It appeared to be a parrot with colouring I was unfamiliar with, i.e. white and pale blue. I went looking online and discovered the Quaker Parrot, a predominately green parrot in the wild, but now also a beautiful blue mutation that was developed in the early 2000s. It seems to be a case of art quickly catching up with evolution.
This parrot is 11 to 12 inches long and is destined to live for 20 to 30 years. The Quaker Parrot is also known as the Monk Parrot (Myiopsitta monachus). It is a true parrot in the family Psittacidae.
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BarrytheBirder
