Pacific Parakeet vs Red-masked Parakeet

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".

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Red-masked Parakeet

Psittacara erythrogenys

Medium151 gWoodland

Red-masked parakeets average about 33 centimetres (13 in) long, of which half is the tail. They are bright green with a mostly red head on which the elongated pale eye-ring is conspicuous; the nape is green. Also, the lesser and median underwing coverts are red, and there is some red on the neck, the thighs, and the leading edge of the wings. Juveniles have green plumage, until their first red feathers appear at around the age of four months. Its call is two-syllabled, harsh and loud.

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