Sorry for all of the posts

dawn · Post by **dawn** » Sun May 07, 2006 5:37 pm

I was curious. I was told that sal is an Alexandrine . Is this different from a ringneck? I believed an Alex was a type of ringneck? Sal's beak is orange on the top as well as the bottom and appears to me to be larger than some that I have seen. I have noticed that quite a few ringnecks have a very black lower beak. Will his change color with age? Sorry for all of the ?s. I am new to all of this and absolutely adore my bird as well as all of the pictures and info on this webpage

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Post by **kyria** » Sun May 07, 2006 6:04 pm

Yep Sal is not an indian ringneck, your baby is an Alexandrine. They are in the same family (psittacula) but different species of birds.

See this picture, sal is on the left, the indian ringneck is second; see the difference

Ringnecks, Alexandrines, plumbheads, moustache parrots, etc. are all adriatic birds. But very different types.

check this site out to help clear it up for you:-

http://birds.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsi ... world.com/

An Alexandrine has a bigger head and beak , larger bird all over and red on the shoulders gives it away perfectly.

Enter the site and on the homepage you can click on the different types of birds in the main picture to gain information on them to help you understand further.

I hope this helps

Cheers !

Dani03 · Post by **Dani03** » Sun May 07, 2006 6:11 pm

Yep...you have an Alex. very pretty! We love alexes here... :wink:

Dani and Prinny

dawn · Post by **dawn** » Sun May 07, 2006 6:28 pm

Thank you all so much. I am interested in learning as much about my Sal as I can. Still not sure wether it is salvador or Salvadora but i love em just the same.