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Hispaniolan Parakeet vs Pacific Parakeet

Hispaniolan Parakeet (Psittacara chloropterus)

Hispaniolan Parakeet

Psittacara chloropterus

Medium146 gForest

The Hispaniolan parakeet is 30 to 33 cm (12 to 13 in) long and weighs 144 to 147 g (5.1 to 5.2 oz). The sexes are alike. Adults are mostly green that is more yellowish on their underparts. Some have a few red flecks on their head. The bend and edge of their wing and their outermost underwing coverts are red. The undersides of their flight feathers and tail are dull yellowish. Their eye is surrounded by bare white skin. Immature birds have little or no red on the wing. Voice: The Hispaniolan parakeet makes a "kree" call "with a grating noisy sound quality" both in flight and when perched.

ID text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Sonogram of the Hispaniolan Parakeet
Recorded by steve · Call · La Ciénaga (near Las Auyamas), Polo, Barahona, Dominican Republic · CC BY-SA 4.0
Photo: Aitor · CC BY 4.0
Pacific Parakeet (Psittacara strenuus)

Pacific Parakeet

Psittacara strenuus

138 gForest

The Pacific parakeet is about 32 cm (13 in) long. The sexes are alike. Adults are generally olive green which is slightly yellowish on the underparts; some have red speckles on their neck. The undersides of their flight feathers and tail are olive-yellow. Their iris is orange-red surrounded by bare pale beige skin, their bill horn colored, and their legs and feet are brownish. Voice: The Pacific parakeet's flight call is rendered as "kreh!-kreh!-kreh!-kreh!...". Its perched call is lower-pitched, "a scratchy kreeh-kreeh-kreeh-kreei-kreei".

ID text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Photo: (c) Grete Pasch, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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