Caatinga Parakeet (Eupsittula cactorum) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernEndemicOmnivore

WoodlandCavity nestMedium · 83 g

Caatinga Parakeet (Eupsittula cactorum), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Salomão Janderson Ferreira Bispo, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Caatinga Parakeet (Eupsittula cactorum), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Audrey Whitlock, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Caatinga Parakeet (Eupsittula cactorum), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Thomaz de Carvalho Callado, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Caatinga Parakeet (Eupsittula cactorum), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Renato Bandeira, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Caatinga Parakeet (Eupsittula cactorum), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Thomaz de Carvalho Callado, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Caatinga Parakeet (Eupsittula cactorum), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Thomaz de Carvalho Callado, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Caatinga Parakeet (Eupsittula cactorum), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Thomaz de Carvalho Callado, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

The Caatinga parakeet is about 25 cm (9.8 in) long. The sexes are alike. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a pale brown forecrown, cheeks, throat, sides of the neck, and breast. Bare whitish skin surrounds their eye. Their belly and vent area are yellow-orange. Their nape, ear coverts, upperparts, and tail are green. Their wings are mostly green with bluish flight feathers. Immature birds are similar to adults but have a completely green crown and duller underparts. Subspecies E. c. caixana has the same plumage pattern as the nominate but is overall paler. Voice: The Caatinga parakeet's flight calls are "high-pitched screeching 'scraart scraart' cries, as well as a softer, shorter and bisyllabic 'tchit tchit' and loud 'cherr-chee'."

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When to see the Caatinga Parakeet

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

Where to see the Caatinga Parakeet

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Brazil

About the Caatinga Parakeet

The Caatinga parakeet, also called the cactus parakeet and in aviculture the cactus conure, is a species of bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is endemic to eastern Brazil.

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Easily confused with

Peach-fronted ParakeetEupsittula aureaThe peach-fronted parakeet is 23 to 28 cm (9.1 to 11 in) long and weighs 74 to 94 g (2.6 to 3.3 oz).

Orange-fronted ParakeetEupsittula canicularisThe orange-fronted parakeet is 23 to 25 cm (9.1 to 9.8 in) long and weighs 68 to 80 g (2.4 to 2.8 oz).

Brown-throated ParakeetEupsittula pertinaxThe brown-throated parakeet is 23 to 28 cm (9.1 to 11 in) long and weighs 76 to 102 g (2.7 to 3.6 oz).

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