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The peach-fronted parakeet is 23 to 28 cm (9.1 to 11 in) long and weighs 74 to 94 g (2.6 to 3.3 oz). The sexes are the same. Adults have a peachy orange forehead (the "front") and forecrown; their hindcrown is dull blue. Bare yellow skin surrounds their eye. Their nape, upperparts, and tail are dull green. Their cheeks and throat are pale olive-brown that transitions through their breast and belly to a greenish yellow vent and undertail coverts. Their wings are mostly green on top and yellow green on the bottom, with greenish blue flight feathers. Voice: The peach-fronted parakeet's call is a "rolling 'vreet vreet-vreet-vreet-vreet', irregularly breaking from low to very high pitch."
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When to see the Peach-fronted Parakeet
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Peach-fronted Parakeet
The map shades 7 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.
Recorded as a rare visitor in United States.
About the Peach-fronted Parakeet
The peach-fronted parakeet, known as the peach-fronted conure in aviculture, is a species of bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Suriname.
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Easily confused with
Caatinga ParakeetEupsittula cactorumThe Caatinga parakeet is about 25 cm (9.8 in) long.
Orange-fronted ParakeetEupsittula canicularisThe orange-fronted parakeet is 23 to 25 cm (9.1 to 9.8 in) long and weighs 68 to 80 g (2.4 to 2.8 oz).
Brown-throated ParakeetEupsittula pertinaxThe brown-throated parakeet is 23 to 28 cm (9.1 to 11 in) long and weighs 76 to 102 g (2.7 to 3.6 oz).
Side by side: Olive-throated Parakeet vs Peach-fronted Parakeet · Brown-throated Parakeet vs Peach-fronted Parakeet · Orange-fronted Parakeet vs Peach-fronted Parakeet · Blue-crowned Parakeet vs Peach-fronted Parakeet · Caatinga Parakeet vs Peach-fronted Parakeet
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