Alexandrine parakeet

plural Alexandrine parakeets

1. A medium-sized parrot, Psittacula eupatria, native to South Asia and Southeast Asia.

   Alexandrine parakeets are among those parrot species that also come in a mutant blue color variety due to the suppression of yellow pigmentation.

   2004, The Encyclopedia of Animals: A Complete Visual Guide, San Francisco, Calif.: Fog City Press, →ISBN, page 298

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   She’s a parrot, children, a special kind – an Alexandrine parakeet. Notice her head, it’s bigger than most other parrots, and when she gets feathers she’ll have these pretty red shoulder patches ....

   2013, Rohini Singh, Free Fall: The Journey Home, Hay House, →ISBN

   In the thirteenth century, Frederick II acquired an umbrella cockatoo from the Sultan of Babylon, and in the fourteenth century, Charles IV of France had an Alexandrine parakeet in his aviary.

   2021, Marcy Norton, “Going to the birds: animals as things and beings in early modernity”, in Paula Findlen, editor, Early Modern Things: Objects and their Histories, 1500–1800 (Early Modern Themes), 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN, part I (The ambiguity of things), page 60

   Synonyms: Alexandrine