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Alternative name: Caribbean Parakeet
- Eupsittula pertinax
Identification
25cm
The subspecies show varying amounts of brown on the face, throat and belly. The eye-ring and forehead colours also vary.
Distribution
Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Venezuela, the Guianas and northern Brazil.
Taxonomy
Formerly placed in genus Aratinga.
Subspecies
There are 14 subspecies[1]:
- E. p. ocularis: Pacific lowlands of south-western Costa Rica and Panama
- E. p. aeruginosa: Northern Colombia to north-western Venezuela
- E. p. griseipecta: North-eastern Colombia (Sinú River Valley)
- E. p. lehmanni: Llanos of eastern Colombia (possibly adjacent western Venezuela)
- E. p. arubensis: Aruba (Netherlands Antilles)
- E. p. pertinax: Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles)
- E. p. xanthogenia: Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles)
- E. p. tortugensis: Isla la Tortuga (off northern Venezuela)
- E. p. margaritensis: Isla Margarita and Islas Los Frailes (off northern Venezuela)
- E. p. venezuelae: Generally distributed throughout Venezuela
- E. p. surinama: North-eastern Venezuela and the Guianas
- E. p. chrysophrys: Tepuis of south-eastern Venezuela and adjacent Brazil
- E. p. chrysogenys: North-western Brazil (Rio Negro region)
- E. p. paraensis: Northern Amazonian Brazil (Rio Tapajós and Rio Cururu)
Habitat
Scrub brush, wooded areas and gardens. Gallery forest, cactus thickets, corn fields and mangrove swamp areas.
Behaviour
References
- Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
- Arthur Grosset
- BF Member observations
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Brown-throated Parakeet. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 2 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Brown-throated_Parakeet
