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The rose-fronted parakeet is 20 to 23 cm (7.9 to 9.1 in) long. The sexes are the same in all subspecies. Adults of the nominate subspecies P. r. roseifrons have a bright red crown and face and dirty whitish ear coverts. Their upperparts are mostly green with a maroon-red red lower back and rump. The hindcrown, throat, and breast are dark with buff to buffy-white edges to the feathers. The center of their belly is deep red to brownish red, and the rest of their underparts are yellowish green. Their wing is mostly green with blue primaries. Their tail is maroon. Voice: The rose-fronted parakeet's flight call is "rolling bursts of prrrt prrrt notes" and it also makes "screeching calls and other conversational notes".
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When to see the Rose-fronted Parakeet
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Rose-fronted Parakeet
The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 3 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 Ecuador, Colombia, Puerto Rico.
About the Rose-fronted Parakeet
The rose-fronted parakeet, known as the rose-fronted conure in aviculture, is a species of bird in the subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru.
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Easily confused with
Bonaparte's ParakeetPyrrhura lucianiiTotal length c. 22 centimetres (8.7 in).
Subandean ParakeetPyrrhura subandinaThe Subandean parakeet, also known as the Sinú parakeet, is a bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots.
Venezuelan ParakeetPyrrhura emmaThe Venezuelan parakeet is 22 to 23 cm (8.7 to 9.1 in) long.
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