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| + | [[Image:White-crowned Parrot Costa Rica.jpg|thumb|450px|right|Male<br />Photo by {{user|Stanley+Jones|Stanley Jones}} <br />Puntarenas Province, [[Costa Rica]], March, 2007]] | ||
;[[: Category:Pionus|Pionus]] senilis | ;[[: Category:Pionus|Pionus]] senilis | ||
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==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
Mostly green with bluish neck including rear part, rear crown, and breast; white chin and front of head to middle of crown. Bluish flight feathers and most of tail, brownish smaller and median wing coverts visible on the sitting bird. Vent area red. Legs, feet, and bill whitish. Juvenile lacking bluish around head and has reduced white on crown. | Mostly green with bluish neck including rear part, rear crown, and breast; white chin and front of head to middle of crown. Bluish flight feathers and most of tail, brownish smaller and median wing coverts visible on the sitting bird. Vent area red. Legs, feet, and bill whitish. Juvenile lacking bluish around head and has reduced white on crown. | ||
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====Similar Species==== | ====Similar Species==== | ||
[[Blue-headed Parrot]] overlaps with the southern part of its range. | [[Blue-headed Parrot]] overlaps with the southern part of its range. | ||
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This is a monotypic species. | This is a monotypic species. | ||
==Habitat== | ==Habitat== | ||
| + | [[Image:White-crowned_Parrot.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Photo by {{user|Reini|Reini}}<br />Northern [[Costa Rica]], at the Laguna del Lagarto Lodge (private rainforest)]] | ||
Forests and edge, mostly humid forests. | Forests and edge, mostly humid forests. | ||
==Behaviour== | ==Behaviour== | ||
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| + | This bird and other members of its genus have distinctive, deep wingbeats, quite different from an ''[[: Category:Amazona|Amazona]]'' parrot. | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
{{GSearch|Pionus+senilis}} | {{GSearch|Pionus+senilis}} | ||
[[Category:Birds]][[Category:Pionus]] | [[Category:Birds]][[Category:Pionus]] | ||
Revision as of 13:37, 20 July 2015
- Pionus senilis
Identification
Mostly green with bluish neck including rear part, rear crown, and breast; white chin and front of head to middle of crown. Bluish flight feathers and most of tail, brownish smaller and median wing coverts visible on the sitting bird. Vent area red. Legs, feet, and bill whitish. Juvenile lacking bluish around head and has reduced white on crown.
Similar Species
Blue-headed Parrot overlaps with the southern part of its range.
Distribution
Mexico to western Panama (Chiriqui).
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
Habitat
Forests and edge, mostly humid forests.
Behaviour
Action
This bird and other members of its genus have distinctive, deep wingbeats, quite different from an Amazona parrot.
