Rose-ringed Parakeets

Rose-ringed Parakeet (Psittacula krameri) is a bird species popular as pets; as they have the ability to mimic human speech. The shot was taken from Ajmer, Rajasthan state of India. Commonly known as parrots, these birds have a large pale red ring around its neck, pale blue nape, red eye-ring and bill. Its tail is long and slender with green-blue feathers.

Sexually dimorphic, the adult male birds can be identified with a red neck –ring and the females and immature birds of both sexes have either no neck rings or show shadow like pale to dark grey neck rings.