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The plum-crowned parrot is 29 to 30 cm (11 to 12 in) long and weighs about 229 g (8.1 oz). Adults' forehead and crown are plum and the rest of their face, their throat, and their breast are dull purple with plum pink flecks. Their back, wings, and belly are green. Their undertail coverts and the base of their tail are red; the rest of their tail is green with some blue on the outer feathers. Their bill is pale yellowish horn-colored, their iris dark with grayish skin around it, and their legs and feet gray. Voice: The plum-crowned parrot's flight call is "a low, harsh crrah." It makes a variety of "conversational" calls, some of them nasal, when perched.
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When to see the Speckle-faced Parrot
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Speckle-faced Parrot
The map shades 5 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Speckle-faced Parrot
The plum-crowned parrot or plum-crowned pionus is a species of bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is found in Bolivia and Peru.
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Easily confused with
Dusky ParrotPionus fuscusThe dusky parrot is approximately 24 cm (9.4 in) long.
Red-billed ParrotPionus sordidusThe red-billed parrot is 27 to 29 cm (11 to 11 in) long and weighs about 272 g (9.6 oz).
Bronze-winged ParrotPionus chalcopterusThe bronze-winged parrot is mainly dark with a whitish chin patch and its upper chest is speckled with pink feathers.
Side by side: Bronze-winged Parrot vs Speckle-faced Parrot · Red-billed Parrot vs Speckle-faced Parrot · Dusky Parrot vs Speckle-faced Parrot
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