Aexandrine Parakeet (Psittacula eupatria)
Order: PSITTACIFORMES
Family: PSITTACIDAE PARROTS
Scientific name: Psittacula eupatria
English name: Aexandrine Parakeet
Characteristic: Size 51 cm. A large green parrot with a slender tail; bill bulbous and hooked at tip, red in colour; also with distinctive red shoulder patch. A male bird is readily recognized by having a reddish collar and black moustachial streak.
Distribution: India, the Andamans, Myanmer, Laos, Indo-China. In Thailand, it occurs in all parts, except the southern one.
Habitat: Dry evergreen forest, dipterocarp forest, to secondary growth.
Habit: Keeps mainly in small flocks that venturing among the tree canopy and searching for wild fruits. It uses its hooked bill to cling to branch that greatly aiding in arboreal locomotion. Breeds between December-March and favours a tree hollow as nesting site, in which it lays 2-4 eggs.
Status: An endangered Thai parrot. Believed to be extirpated from Sakaerat area.
