This Article Seychelles Parakeet is composed of Creative Common Content.\n The Original Article can be location at WikiPedia.org.\nCheck us out at WikiPlays.org ref\n extinct 1883\n image Psittacula.wardi.jgk.jpg\n regnum Animalia\n phylum Chordata\n classis Aves\n ordo Psittaciformes\n superfamilia Psittacoidea\n familia Psittaculidae\n subfamilia Psittaculinae\n tribus Psittaculini\n genus Psittacula\n species P. wardi\n binomial Psittacula wardi\n binomialauthority E. Newton 1867\n\n\nThe Seychelles Parakeet Psittacula wardi occurred in the Indian ocean islands of the Seychelles group. It resembled the Alexandrine Parakeet but was smaller and lacked the pink colour in its collar. The species is suspected to have become extinct due to intense persecution by farmers and coconut plantation owners. \nPhylogenetic studies suggest that the species diverged from the Alexandrine Parakeet through isolation of populations that dispersed through the Indian Subcontinent into Seychelles about 11 million years ago when sea levels were much lower.ref\nIt was endemic to Mah and Silhouette and was once sighted on Praslin. It was rare when describ