Venezuelan Parakeet

Pyrrhura emma

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernEndemicOmnivoreForestCavity nestMedium · 76 g

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The Venezuelan parakeet is 22 to 23 cm (8.7 to 9.1 in) long. The sexes are the same. Adults have a blue crown, a plum-red face, a gray-brown nape, and whitish ear coverts. Their upperparts are mostly green with a red-brown rump. Their chin, throat, and the sides of their neck are gray-olive with pale scaling. The center of their belly is red-brown and the rest of their underparts are green. Their wing is mostly green with a red-brown shoulder and blue primaries. Their tail is red-brown. Their bill is dusky and their eyes orange to yellow with bare dark gray skin surrounding them. Voice: The Venezuelan parakeet's call is "a loud, harsh "kik-kik-kik-kik" ". It also makes a ""wa-Ke-Ke-Ke-ka" in anger or distress when perched".

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When to see the Venezuelan Parakeet

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 2 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is June, the month with the most records.

About the Venezuelan Parakeet

The Venezuelan parakeet or Emma's conure is a species of bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is endemic to Venezuela.

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