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Caique
| Caiques | |
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| Black-headed parrot (Pionites melanocephalus), Yasuní, Ecuador | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Psittaciformes |
| Family: | Psittacidae |
| Subfamily: | Arinae |
| Genus: | Pionites Heine, 1890 |
| Type species | |
| Psittacus melanocephalus[2] Linnaeus, 1758
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| Species | |
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| Ranges of black-headed parrot (green) and white-bellied parrot complex overlap | |
Caique (/kaɪˈiːk/ or /kɑːˈiːk/[3]) refers to two to four species of parrots in the genus Pionites endemic to the Amazon Basin in South America.
- ^ a b del Hoyo, J., Collar, N. & Kirwan, G. M. (2014). Black-legged Parrot (Pionites xanthomerius). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D. A. & de Juana, E. (eds.) (2014). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from http://www.hbw.com/node/467506 Archived 2023-03-05 at the Wayback Machine on 24 October 2015)
- ^ "Psittacidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
- ^ Jones, Daniel (2003) [1917], Peter Roach; James Hartmann; Jane Setter (eds.), English Pronouncing Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 3-12-539683-2
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