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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]
- North-central Brazil (Pará, northern Mato Grosso, northern Goiás and Maranhão)
- 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
- Birdforum Discussion thread on the taxonomy of the Pyrrhura picta complex.
- 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.
- 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
- Gill, F, M Wright and D Donsker. 2009. IOC World Bird Names (version 2.0). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
- 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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