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713:Handbook of the Birds of the World Vol 4
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1018:Species endangered by the pet trade
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534:Guide to Companion Parrot Behavior
333:The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
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859:red-masked-parakeet
580:- Mark Bittner 2008
393:Conservation status
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338:Judy Irving
254:Description
137:Psittacidae
978:Psittacara
967:Categories
945:Xeno-canto
657:17 January
622:2017-11-28
550:2013-01-24
414:References
378:Long Beach
324:California
236:aviculture
148:Psittacara
998:Parakeets
758:Q27074999
698:. Knopf.
374:Palo Alto
366:Sunnyvale
326:, in the
155:Species:
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87:Eukaryota
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667:cite web
384:Breeding
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133:Family:
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103:Phylum:
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60:IUCN 3.1
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264:coverts
248:conures
242:or the
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304:Ferals
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316:feral
226:from
906:NCBI
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717:ISBN
700:ISBN
673:link
659:2022
539:ISBN
451:2021
443:2021
400:IUCN
376:and
281:Peru
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