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Grey-cheeked Parakeet vs White-winged Parakeet

Grey-cheeked Parakeet (Brotogeris pyrrhoptera)

Grey-cheeked Parakeet

Brotogeris pyrrhoptera

Medium64 gForest

The grey-cheeked parakeet is 19 to 20.5 cm (7.5 to 8.1 in) long and weighs between 60 and 68 g (2.1 and 2.4 oz). Adults are mostly green that is paler and yellower on the underparts. They have a pale blue crown, pale ashy gray cheeks and sides of the neck, and a whitish eye ring and bill. Their primary coverts are deep blue and their underwing coverts orange to orange-red. Immature birds have green instead of blue crowns. Voice: The grey-cheeked parakeet is "oisy, giving a variety of rather shrill, chattering calls." Some have been described as "chree", "chree-chree" and "cra-cra-cra-cra-cra". Members of a flock often call simultaneously.

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Photo: Beatrice Murch · CC BY 2.0
White-winged Parakeet (Brotogeris versicolurus)

White-winged Parakeet

Brotogeris versicolurus

Medium72 gForest

The white-winged parakeet typically is 22 cm in length, and is mostly green in color. It has a trailing yellow edge on its folded wings. Its most distinguished characteristic is the white wing patches most noticed when the bird is in flight. It is closely related to the yellow-chevroned parakeet, and the two have often been considered conspecific.

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Photo: anthrotect · CC BY 2.0

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