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Madeira Parakeet
Photo by arthurgrosset
Photographed: Cristalino Lodge, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Alternative name: Hellmayr's Parakeet

Pyrrhura amazonum

Includes: Madeira Parakeet

[edit] Identification

Green with a dark red belly, rump and tail-tip.

[edit] Distribution

Brazil and northern Bolivia.

[edit] Taxonomy

Falls within the Painted Parakeet (P. picta) complex, the taxonomy of which is undecided:^[1] This taxon is recognised as a separate species by some authorities^[2][4] but not by others^[3][5].

Pyrrhura amazonum has two subspecies:^[2]

• P. a. amazonum

• North-central Brazil (Pará, northern Mato Grosso, northern Goiás and Maranhão)

• P. a. snethlage

• Rio Madeira basin in southern Brazil and northern Bolivia - sometimes split as Madeira Parakeet

[edit] Habitat

Humid lowland forest.

[edit] Behaviour

Diet includes seeds and flowers.

The nest is placed in a tree cavity.

[edit] References

1. Birdforum Discussion thread on the taxonomy of the Pyrrhura picta complex.
2. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
3. Dickinson, EC, ed. 2003. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed., with updates to December 2007 (Corrigenda 7). Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691117010
4. Gill, F, M Wright and D Donsker. 2009. IOC World Bird Names (version 2.0). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
5. Sibley, CG and BL Monroe. 1996. Birds of the World, on diskette, Windows version 2.0. Charles G. Sibley, Santa Rosa, CA, USA.

• List of references

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