Cordilleran Parakeet (Psittacara frontatus) | Photos and ID

NTNear ThreatenedFruit

ForestCavity nestMedium · 194 g

Cordilleran Parakeet (Psittacara frontatus), photo 1 — Photo: (c) biped_cub, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by biped_cub · cc-by

Cordilleran Parakeet (Psittacara frontatus), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Pirataber, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Cordilleran Parakeet (Psittacara frontatus), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Monics Paredes, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Cordilleran Parakeet (Psittacara frontatus), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Antoine MARNAT, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Cordilleran Parakeet (Psittacara frontatus), photo 9 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Cordilleran Parakeet (Psittacara frontatus), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Antonio W. Salas, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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The cordilleran parakeet is 34 to 40 cm (13 to 16 in) long and weighs 162 to 217 g (5.7 to 7.7 oz). The sexes are alike. Adults are generally green that is yellower on the underparts; some have red speckles on their throat. Their forehead, the front part of their crown, and the bend of their wing are red. The undersides of their flight feathers and tail are olive-yellow. Their iris is pale gray surrounded by bare white skin, their bill horn colored, and their legs and feet brownish. Subspecies P. f. Voice: The cordilleran parakeet is very vocal, especially in flight with "a continuous loud screeching chatter". It also makes "queaky notes and screeches, kreee".

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When to see the Cordilleran Parakeet

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

Where to see the Cordilleran Parakeet

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 2 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Peru Ecuador

Recorded as a rare visitor in Brazil.

About the Cordilleran Parakeet

The cordilleran parakeet is a Near Threatened species of bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is found in Ecuador and Peru.

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Easily confused with

Scarlet-fronted ParakeetPsittacara wagleriThe scarlet-fronted parakeet is 34 to 40 cm (13 to 16 in) long and weighs 162 to 217 g (5.7 to 7.7 oz).

Green ParakeetPsittacara holochlorusThe green parakeet is 28 to 30.5 cm (11 to 12 in) long and weighs about 230 g (8.1 oz).

Socorro ParakeetPsittacara brevipesThe Socorro parakeet is 31 to 33 cm (12 to 13 in) long.

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