Brown-necked Parrot (Poicephalus fuscicollis) | Photos and ID

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Brown-necked Parrot (Poicephalus fuscicollis), photo 1 — Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Alice T~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain

Brown-necked Parrot (Poicephalus fuscicollis), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Paul Hoekman, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Brown-necked Parrot (Poicephalus fuscicollis), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Timothy Whitehead, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Brown-necked Parrot (Poicephalus fuscicollis), photo 8 — Photo: (c) William Stephens, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Brown-necked Parrot (Poicephalus fuscicollis), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Justin Ponder, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Brown-necked Parrot (Poicephalus fuscicollis), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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The largest member of its genus, the brown-necked parrot has a relatively large head and bill, and stocky build. It has a light grey head. The nominate subspecies fuscicollis has a bluer sheen to its plumage than suahelicus. The upperparts are yellow-green and underparts greenish.

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When to see the Brown-necked Parrot

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Brown-necked Parrot

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 16 countries with regular records, and 2 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.

Zambia South Africa Zimbabwe Gambia Ghana Mozambique Malawi Tanzania Uganda Namibia Botswana Côte d’Ivoire Angola Congo - Kinshasa Senegal Rwanda

Recorded as a rare visitor in Germany, Nigeria.

About the Brown-necked Parrot

The brown-necked parrot, sometimes known in aviculture as the uncape parrot, is a large Poicephalus parrot species endemic to Africa.

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Easily confused with

Niam-niam ParrotPoicephalus crassusNiam-Niam parrots are not known to be sexually dimorphic.

Yellow-fronted ParrotPoicephalus flavifronsThe yellow-fronted parrot is about 28 centimetres (11 in) long and is mostly green with the upper parts being a darker green, the tail being olive-brown, and the legs a dark grey-brown.

Rüppell's ParrotPoicephalus rueppelliiRüppell's parrot is 22–25 cm (8.7–9.8 in) long and weighs 121–156 g (4.3–5.5 oz).

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