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The 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). The sexes are alike. Adults are generally green that is yellower on the underparts; some have red speckles on their throat. Their English name comes from their red forehead and the front part of their crown. The undersides of their flight feathers and tail are olive-yellow. Their iris is pale gray surrounded by bare gray skin, their bill horn colored, and their legs and feet brownish. Subspecies P. w. Voice: The scarlet-fronted 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 Scarlet-fronted Parakeet
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Scarlet-fronted Parakeet
The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 6 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 Peru, Aruba, United States, Spain, ZZ, Mexico.
About the Scarlet-fronted Parakeet
The scarlet-fronted parakeet, known in aviculture as the scarlet-fronted conure, red-fronted conure, or Wagler's conure, is a Near Threatened species of bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela.
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Easily confused with
Cordilleran ParakeetPsittacara frontatusThe cordilleran 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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