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ForestCavity nestMedium · 246 g
ID tip
The red-fan parrot possesses elongated neck feathers that can be raised to form an elaborate fan, which greatly increases the bird's apparent size, and is possibly used when threatened. It generally lives in undisturbed forest, feeding in the canopy on fruits. It has a dark brown face with white streaks, bare black patch round its brown eye, green wings, flanks and tail and red and blue barred breast.
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When to see the Red-fan Parrot
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Red-fan Parrot
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 Curaçao.
About the Red-fan Parrot
The red-fan parrot, also known as the hawk-headed parrot, is a New World parrot hailing from the Amazon rainforest. It is the only member of the genus Deroptyus.
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Easily confused with
Cape ParrotPoicephalus robustusThe Cape parrot is a short-tailed moderately large bird with a very large beak used to crack all sorts of hard nuts and fruit kernels, especially those of African yellowwood trees (Podocarpus spp.).
Grey-hooded ParakeetPsilopsiagon aymaraThe grey-hooded parakeet is a small, slender parakeet growing to a length of about 20 cm (8 in).
White-bellied ParrotPionites leucogasterThe white-bellied parrot is 23 to 25 cm (9.1 to 9.8 in) long and weighs about 155 g (5.5 oz).
Side by side: Grey-hooded Parakeet vs Red-fan Parrot · Red-fan Parrot vs White-bellied Parrot · Cape Parrot vs Red-fan Parrot · Red-fan Parrot vs Yellow-eared Parrot
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