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Pyrrhura hoffmanni

Photo by Jim Crosswell
Location: Finca Oro, Costa Rica

[edit] Identification

23 cm. Green, scaled with orange on the head and chest, red nape spot, dull red tail, blue outer wing primaries, yellow on the inner wing. Young birds are similar to the adults, but duller and with much less yellow in the wing.

Its flight call is a toweet-deet-deet-toweet, and when perched it has a reedy zeeweet.

[edit] Distribution

Costa Rica and western Panama.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Mountain forests and open woodland.

[edit] Behaviour

It builds a nest in an unlined cavity, such as an old woodpecker hole, and white eggs are laid.

The diet includes seeds and fruits, especially figs.

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