White-winged Parakeet

ID tip

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

When to see the White-winged Parakeet

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the White-winged Parakeet

The map shades 6 countries with regular records, and 2 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 United States, Bolivia.

About the White-winged Parakeet

The white-winged parakeet, or canary-winged parakeet is a small parrot native to the Amazon River basin from southeast Colombia to the rivers mouth in Brazil. Caged birds have been released and the birds have established self-sustaining populations in Lima, Peru, Los Angeles, and Miami, Florida areas of the United States, and in Puerto Rico. They were also present in San Francisco, California until the mid-2000s. Although feral birds are showing some recent declines as nesters in the United States, they seem to be doing well in their native habitat.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Cobalt-winged ParakeetBrotogeris cyanopteraThe cobalt-winged parakeet is 18 to 20 cm (7.1 to 7.9 in) long and weighs an average of 67 g (2.4 oz). Golden-winged ParakeetBrotogeris chrysopteraThe golden-winged parakeet is about 16 cm (6.3 in) long and weighs 47 to 80 g (1.7 to 2.8 oz). Tui ParakeetBrotogeris sanctithomaeThe tui parakeet is 17 to 19 cm (6.7 to 7.5 in) long and weighs an average of 59 g (2.1 oz).

Side by side: White-winged Parakeet vs Yellow-chevroned Parakeet · Plain Parakeet vs White-winged Parakeet · Cobalt-winged Parakeet vs White-winged Parakeet · Red-shouldered Macaw vs White-winged Parakeet · Golden-winged Parakeet vs White-winged Parakeet · Tui Parakeet vs White-winged Parakeet · Grey-cheeked Parakeet vs White-winged Parakeet