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Echo or Mauritius Parakeets
A Bird of Beauty.
The Mauritius Parakeet (Psittacula echo) - also known as Echo Parakeet - is the sole survivor of the Psittacula species which inhabited the Southern Indian ocean islands near Madagascar. It is among the rarest extant psittacids in the world. It is endemic to Mauritius in the Mascarene Islands, and formerly might have been found on Réunion as well.
In the 1980s, there were only about 10 left alive. But, in a rare success story, a two-decade conservation program in a wooded corner of Mauritius has brought the Echo Parakeet back from the brink of extinction.
http://voices.nationalgeographic.com...y-of-the-dodo/
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Cute little guys, with their little eyes and ring neck.
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They are so pretty. Hope someone is doing captive breeding. Not much info. on them.
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