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ForestCavity nestMedium · 210 g
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The bronze-winged parrot is mainly dark with a whitish chin patch and its upper chest is speckled with pink feathers. It has short red undertail feathers. The rump, tail and wings are dark blue with lighter blue underwings. The head is dark blue-green; the mantle, back and underparts are dark bronze-green with some blue tipped feathers and sometimes scattered red feathers. Its beak is pale yellow. In adults the ring of bare skin around the eyes is pink. Juveniles have whitish eyerings and their underparts are brownish.
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When to see the Bronze-winged Parrot
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Bronze-winged Parrot
The map shades 5 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Bronze-winged Parrot
The bronze-winged parrot is a medium-sized pionus parrot 28 cm (11 in) long. It is a short-tailed stocky parrot found in forest and woodland in north-western South America.
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Easily confused with
Scaly-headed ParrotPionus maximilianiThe scaly-headed parrot is 25 to 29 cm (9.8 to 11 in) long and weighs 233 to 293 g (8.2 to 10 oz).
Red-billed ParrotPionus sordidusThe red-billed parrot is 27 to 29 cm (11 to 11 in) long and weighs about 272 g (9.6 oz).
Speckle-faced ParrotPionus tumultuosusThe plum-crowned parrot is 29 to 30 cm (11 to 12 in) long and weighs about 229 g (8.1 oz).
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