• Welcome to BirdForum, the internet's largest birding community with thousands of members from all over the world. The forums are dedicated to wild birds, birding, binoculars and equipment and all that goes with it.

    Please register for an account to take part in the discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.
ZEISS DTI thermal imaging cameras. For more discoveries at night, and during the day.

Difference between revisions of "Red-fronted Parrotlet" - BirdForum Opus

(behav)
(taxon, refs, remove incomplete, range)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{incomplete}}
 
 
;[[: Category:Touit|Touit]] costaricensis
 
;[[: Category:Touit|Touit]] costaricensis
 
==Identification==
 
==Identification==
Line 5: Line 4:
  
 
==Distribution==
 
==Distribution==
[[Costa Rica]] and [[Panama]].  
+
[[Costa Rica]] and western [[Panama]].  
  
 
==Taxonomy==
 
==Taxonomy==
 +
This is a [[Dictionary_M-S#M|monotypic]] species<sup>[[#References|1]]</sup>.
 
==Habitat==
 
==Habitat==
 
Wet cool forest at mid to high elevation.
 
Wet cool forest at mid to high elevation.
 
==Behaviour==
 
==Behaviour==
 
Voice sounds like the genus name ''Touit''
 
Voice sounds like the genus name ''Touit''
 +
==References==
 +
#{{Ref-Clements6thDec10}}# Garrigues and Dean 2007. The birds of Costa Rica - a field guide. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-7373-9
 +
# Ridgely & Gwynne 1989. Birds of Panama. Princeton Paperbacks. ISBN 0691025126
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
 
{{GSearch|Touit+costaricensis}}
 
{{GSearch|Touit+costaricensis}}
 
[[Category:Birds]] [[Category:Missing Images]] [[Category:Touit]]
 
[[Category:Birds]] [[Category:Missing Images]] [[Category:Touit]]

Revision as of 16:45, 5 March 2011

Touit costaricensis

Identification

15cm. Green, short tail, red forehead, lores, and under eye, red shoulders and leading edge of underwing, and the remaining underwing coverts yellow. Edges of tail also yellow.

Distribution

Costa Rica and western Panama.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species1.

Habitat

Wet cool forest at mid to high elevation.

Behaviour

Voice sounds like the genus name Touit

References

  1. 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
  2. Garrigues and Dean 2007. The birds of Costa Rica - a field guide. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-7373-9
  3. Ridgely & Gwynne 1989. Birds of Panama. Princeton Paperbacks. ISBN 0691025126

External Links

Back
Top