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Pyrrhura rupicola

[edit] Identification

25cm. Green, dark brown-black cap, whitish scaly neck and breast, red upper wing coverts, dark breast feathers with light tips, black beak. Juvenile: As adults but duller; green primary coverts and carpal edge, white cere and bare white eye ring.

[edit] Distribution

Peru to Bolivia and possibly the western edge of Brazil.

[edit] Taxonomy

There are 2 subspecies:

• P. r. rupicola - central Peru.
• P. r. sandiae - SE Peru and N Bolivia.

[edit] Habitat

Humid lowland forests, less often in east Andean foothills up to 300m.

[edit] Behaviour

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