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African grey parrot (psttacus erithacus)🦜

Photo: RIDH-1 · CC BY 4.0

SpeciesPsittaciformesPsittacidae
Birds

🦜Grey Parrot

Psittacus erithacus Linnaeus, 1758

El loro yaco (Psittacus erithacus),​ también conocido como loro gris o loro gris africano, es una especie de ave psitaciforme de la familia de los psitácidos propia de la selva tropical africana. Su aspecto es inconfundible, por su pico negro, su plumaje de color gris y su cola roja. Se encuentra amenazado por la pérdida de hábitat y por las capturas para el tráfico ilegal como mascotas. Se trata de un ave caracterizada por su elevada inteligencia y por su capacidad de memorización e imitación de palabras.​

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Photos
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Measurements
10
vs you
≈ 1/190th of your weight
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.33 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
50 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Grey Parrot

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.33 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.33 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.09 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.24 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.04 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.03 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
50 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Herbivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Forest
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Insessorial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.3 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Grey Parrot yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPsittaciformes
  5. ›familyPsittacidae
  6. ›genusPsittacus
  7. ›speciesPsittacus erithacus
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderParrots · Psittaciformes
  4. genusPsittacus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderParrots · Psittaciformes
  11. genusPsittacus
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In other languages
Graupapagei (de), ヨウム (ja), szürke jákópapagáj (hu), 非洲灰鹦鹉 (zh), jako (nb), lloro gris africà (ca) … and 25 more languages
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