Cliff Parakeet (Myiopsitta luchsi) | Photos and ID

NTNear ThreatenedEndemicOmnivore

UrbanDomed nestMedium · 120 g

Cliff Parakeet (Myiopsitta luchsi), photo 3 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Cliff Parakeet (Myiopsitta luchsi), photo 4 — Photo: (c) fernando vilar, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Cliff Parakeet (Myiopsitta luchsi), photo 5 — Photo: (c) fernando vilar, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Cliff Parakeet (Myiopsitta luchsi), photo 6 — Photo: (c) avocat, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Cliff Parakeet (Myiopsitta luchsi), photo 7 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Cliff Parakeet (Myiopsitta luchsi), photo 8 — Photo: (c) avocat, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Cliff Parakeet (Myiopsitta luchsi), photo 9 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Cliff Parakeet (Myiopsitta luchsi), photo 10 — Photo: (c) David F. Belmonte, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

The cliff parakeet is 30 cm (12 in) long and weighs about 120 g (4.2 oz). Adults have a gray face, throat, and breast and a yellow belly. Their flanks, vent, undertail coverts, and thighs are green. Their hindcrown, nape, and back are various shades of green. Their central tail feathers are dark green to bluish and the rest have green outer webs and yellow inner webs and tips. Their primaries, outer secondaries, and their coverts are blue and the rest of the wing green. Their bill is yellowish brown, sometimes with a rose tinge.

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When to see the Cliff Parakeet

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 5 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Cliff Parakeet

Regular range

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

Bolivia

About the Cliff Parakeet

The cliff parakeet is a Near Threatened species of bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is endemic to Bolivia.

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Easily confused with

Monk ParakeetMyiopsitta monachusThe nominate subspecies of this parrot is 29 cm (11 in) long on average, with a 48-centimetre (19 in) wingspan, and weighs 100 g (3.5 oz).

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