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ForestCavity nestMedium · 68 g
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Total length c. 22 centimetres (8.7 in). As other members of the Pyrrhura picta complex, it is a long-tailed mainly green parakeet with a dark red belly, rump and tail-tip (tail all dark red from below), pale grey scaling to the chest, a whitish or dull buff patch on the auriculars and bluish remiges. The cheeks and crown are dark dusky-maroon (often appears almost blackish). Unlike other members of the P. picta complex, it lacks any bright red or blue to the head (but see Taxonomy). The legs are dark greyish.
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When to see the Bonaparte's Parakeet
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Bonaparte's Parakeet
The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Germany.
About the Bonaparte's Parakeet
Bonaparte's parakeet, also known as Deville's parakeet, or in aviculture as Deville's conure, is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae. It is restricted to the Brazilian state of Amazonas south of the Solimões river.
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Easily confused with
Rose-fronted ParakeetPyrrhura roseifronsThe rose-fronted parakeet is 20 to 23 cm (7.9 to 9.1 in) long.
Subandean ParakeetPyrrhura subandinaThe Subandean parakeet, also known as the Sinú parakeet, is a bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots.
Venezuelan ParakeetPyrrhura emmaThe Venezuelan parakeet is 22 to 23 cm (8.7 to 9.1 in) long.
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