Parrots found in Africa or on nearby islands
Parrot Information ... Index of Non-Parrot Bird Species
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Parrots found in ...
Americas (New World) ... Africa (and nearby islands) - please scroll down ... New Zealand ... Australia ... Melanesia (islands north / northeast of Australia) ... Asia
Abessinian Parrots aka Red-bellied Parrots or Red-breasted Parrots (Poicephalus)
Abyssinian Ringnecks aka Abyssinian Parakeets (Psittacula krameri parvirostris)
African Greys / Grey Parrots (Congo Greys, Timnehs, etc)
African Ringnecks aka Rose-ringed Parakeets, African Ringnecked Parakeets
Broad-billed Parrots - (islands in the Indean Ocean off the coast of Africa)
Brown-headed Parakeets: Please go to Society Kakariki (extinct parrot from New Zealand)) and/or Poicephalus
Brown-necked Parrots (Cape Parrots)
Cape Parrots aka Tori Parrots aka Brown-necked Parrots (Poicephalus robustus robustus)
Echo or Mauritius Parakeets (Echo or Eques) - Island off the coast of Africa
Greater Vasa Parrots or Vasa Parrots (Coracopsis) - Islands in Indian Ocean (near Africa)
Mascarene Parrots (Mascarinus mascarinus) - Island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa
Masked Lovebirds aka Yellow-collared Lovebird or Eye-ring Lovebirds (Agapornis personatus)
Mauritius Parakeets aka Mauritius Ring-necked Parakeets (Echo) (Psittacula krameri echo / eques echo) - Island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa
Meyer's Parrots (Poicephalus meyeri meyeri)
Newton's Parakeets (Psittacula exsul) - EXTINCT - previously found on an island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa
Niam-Niam Parrots (Poicephalus crassus aka Poicephalus cryptoxanthus crassus)
Red-bellied or Red-breasted Parrots: Please go to Conures (Americas) or Abessinian Parrots (Africa)
Ring-neck Parrots / Parakeets aka Ringnecks
African subspecies: African-ringnecked Parakeet (P. krameri krameri): Abyssinian-ringnecked (P. krameri parvirostris)
Asian subspecies: Indian-ringnecked Parakeet (P. krameri manillensis); Boreal or Neumann's ringnecked Parakeet (P. krameri borealis).
Rodriguez Ring-necked Parakeets (Newton's Parakeets) - EXTINCT - Island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa
Rodriguez Parrots - Island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa
Rose-ringed Parakeets (Psittacula krameri krameri aka Palaeornis docilis) - Central Africa and Asia
Rüppell's Parrots, Ruppel's or Rueppel's Parrots (Poicephalus rueppellii)
Senegal Parrots (Poicephalus senegalus senegalus)
Vasa or Greater Vasa Parrots (Coracopsis) - Islands in Indian Ocean (near Africa)
Yellow-vented Parrots (Senegal Parrots)
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