Alexandrine parakeet

English thumb|Male Alexandrine parakeet Etymology Named after Alexander the Great, who transported numerous birds from Punjab to various European and Mediterranean countries and regions, where they were prized by the royalty, nobility and warlords. Noun A medium-sized parrot, Psittacula eupatria species, native to South Asia and Southeast Asia. en Alexandrine en The Encyclopedia of Animals: A Complete Visual Guide San Francisco, Calif. Fog City Press 2004 298 https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofan0000unse_p1f3/page/298/mode/1up 978-1-74089-320-6 Alexandrine parakeets are among those parrot species that also come in a mutant blue color variety due to the suppression of yellow pigmentation. en Rohini Singh Free Fall: The Journey Home w:Hay House 2013 9789381398371 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 .... en Marcy Norton Going to the birds: animals as things and beings in early modernity w:Paula Findlen Early Modern Things: Objects and their Histories, 1500–1800 Early Modern Themes 2nd w:Routledge 2021 part I (The ambiguity of things) 60 9781138483132 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. Further reading en eponyms en Parrots