Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. Chordata (phylum)
8. Vertebrata (subphylum)
9. Aves (class)
10. Psittaciformes (order)

Narrower term/s

• Melopsittacus (genus)[+]
  • Melopsittacus undulatus (species)
• parakeets (general)
• macaws
• Nymphicus (genus)[+]
  • Nymphicus hollandicus (species)

Anotations

Scope note:

Members of the family comprising over 330 species of fruit- and seed-eating birds of the tropics and southern hemisphere, with a short, downcurved, hooked bill, grasping feet, a raucous voice, and often brightly colored plumage. Parrots have been kept as cage birds since ancient times for their bright colors and ability to imitate human speech.