(n.) Any one numerous species of small brush-tongued parrots or lories, found mostly in Australia, New Guinea and the adjacent islands, with some forms in the East Indies. They are arboreal in their habits and feed largely upon the honey of flowers. They belong to Trichoglossus, Loriculus, and several allied genera.
Example Sentences:
(1) n. is described from the rainbow lorikeet, Trichoglossus haematodus, in Papua New Guinea.
(2) Thirteen out of 30 wild lorikeets (43.3%) were infected with E. haematodi.
(3) Between September 1977 and November 1978, chlamydiosis (psittacoisis) was diagnosed in 52 of 128 parrots, 5 of 12 cockatiels, 2 of 5 cockatoos, 3 of 6 macaws, 1 of 22 conures, 2 of 18 lovebirds, and 6 of 76 parakeets; 2 lories and 1 lorikeet were chlamydiosis negative.
(4) Plasma corticosterone concentrations in cockatoos, macaws, Amazon parrots, conures, and lorikeets before and after ACTH administration indicated that the ACTH stimulation test could be used to evaluate adrenal secretory capacity in psittacine birds.
Parakeet
Definition:
(n.) Same as Parrakeet.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also paroquet and paraquet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The RSPB said it was also concerned at the potential release of American minks and ring-necked parakeets into the wild.
(2) The results with the two precursors confirmed those obtained "in vivo" with the parakeet.
(3) Giardia trophozoites were isolated from the small intestine of budgerigars (parakeets) and examined morphologically with light and scanning electron microscopy.
(4) The relative frequency selectivity of the internal auditory filters, as measured by critical bands or critical ratios, and psychophysical tuning curves, was compared in an avian species (parakeet) and human listeners.
(5) A group of 39 strains isolated from pigeons, parakeets, parrots, sheep, goats, cats, guinea-pigs, mice and humans were immunotyped by a one-way or two-way cross-reaction micro-immunofluorescence test.
(6) A questionnaire survey of 1005 consecutive attenders at four outpatient clinics yielded 117 (12%) budgerigar fanciers (exposed to budgerigars- known in North America as parakeets-for at least three months) and 296 (29%) former fanciers.
(7) The organism was isolated from 126 (30.4%) of 414 tissue specimens, with the percentages ranging from 12.5% (budgerigars) to 42.8% (cockatiels), excluding 2 parakeets with 1 isolation (50%).
(8) In the UK, Defra has revealed in response to a Freedom of Information request that the monk parakeets have already made a home in a mobile phone mast and that “they are causing a hazard to householders due to the droppings below their colonial nests”.
(9) The velocity vs frequency response curve, measured from the tip of the concave tympanic membrane, and corrected to a constant stimulus level of 100 dB SPL, was obtained for the neonatal chick and parakeet for frequencies between 0.2 and 10.0 kHz with a capacitive probe.
(10) Coccidiosis was seen only in the small intestines of the finch (Poephila gouldiae gouldiae), African Grey Parrot, Rainbow lory (Trichoglossus haematodus), Indian Ring-necked parakeet (Psittacula krameri manillensis) and peach-faced lovebird (Agapornis roseicollis).
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The Parakeet and the Mermaid’ at Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs exhibition, Tate Modern.
(12) The testes did not show any response to LP or SP for 45 and 90 days when the birds were transferred to altered photoperiods during the breeding (March) and preparatory (June) phases, indicating that the parakeets were photorefractory for at least 6 months (March through September).
(13) The RSPB has not objected to the cull, although it does not believe the monk parakeet poses a threat to indigenous wildlife.
(14) Oxytetracycline hydrochloride (OTC) was delivered to adult parakeets by aerosolization using a DeVilbiss model 65 ultrasonic nebulizer.
(15) The key problem is the huge communal nests built by the monk parakeets as these can cause blackouts when built on pylons and then drenched by rain.
(16) The intensity difference limens for the chinchilla were considerably larger than those for humans as well as several other mammals; however, the results were similar to those obtained for the parakeet.
(17) Giardia infection causing high morbidity and mortality in parakeets in 3 commercial aviaries is described.
(18) Seasonal changes in testicular activity, plasma luteinizing hormone (LH), estradiol (E2), testosterone (T), and 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone (5 alpha-DHT) were related to pair bond formation, nest building, nest defense, and parental behavior in free-living Indian rose-ringed parakeets (Psittacula krameri) in northwest India.
(19) Two strains from psittacine birds, a parrot and a parakeet, were identical to the B-II immunotype.
(20) A number of nuclei and fibre systems of the parakeet di-mesencephalon, as visible in transverse series stained with the methods of HAGGQVIST and of KLUVER and BARRERA, have been described.