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The slender-billed parakeet is about 40 cm (16 in) long. The species' English name comes from its greatly elongated mandible. The sexes are the same. Adults have a red forehead and lores in an otherwise yellow-green face. Their upperparts are dull green. Their underparts are yellowish green with a reddish patch on the belly. Their tail is also reddish; their wings are mostly green with bluish green primaries. Immature birds are similar to adults but are a darker green and have whitish skin around the eye. Voice: The slender-billed parakeet's most common call is "a nasal grating note, typically repeated in long series, e.g. "grrreh-grrreh-grrreh..."." It also makes "higher-pitched slightly more melodious screeches, "kreeh!" or "kerreh!"."
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When to see the Slender-billed Parakeet
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Slender-billed Parakeet
The map shades 1 country 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 Argentina.
About the Slender-billed Parakeet
The slender-billed parakeet or choroy, is a species of bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is endemic to Chile, where it is known by the local common name choroy.
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Easily confused with
Side by side: Austral Parakeet vs Slender-billed Parakeet
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