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Santarem Parakeet

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Alternative name: Hellmayr's Parakeet

Pyrrhura amazonum

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[edit] Identification

[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

[edit] Habitat

[edit] Behaviour

[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. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
  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.

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