Maroon-bellied Parakeet - BirdForum Opus

Alternative Name: Reddish-bellied Parakeet¹.

Photo by Adolfo Alarcon
Cornélio Procópio, PR, Brazil, July 2012

Pyrrhura frontalis

Identification

24 to 28 cm (9½-11 in)

• Green plumage
• Maroon belly patch
• Yellow-green barred breast and front and sides of neck
• Brownish ear patch
• Black beak
• Maroon undertail
• The dark-tipped primaries are blue on outerwebs, green on innerwebs

Photo by nick scarle
South-east Brazil, November 2009

Distribution

Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 2 subspecies^[1]:

• P. f. frontalis:

• Eastern Brazil (Bahia to Rio de Janeiro and northern São Paulo)

• P. f. chiripepe:

• South-eastern Brazil to south-eastern Paraguay and northern Argentina

Habitat

Atlantic Rainforest, and towns

Behaviour

They move around in flocks

Diet

Their diet includes various seeds

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. De la Peña & Rumboll, 1998. Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-09035-1
3. Avianweb
4. BF Member observations

• List of references

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• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2021) Maroon-bellied Parakeet. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 29 April 2021 from https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/Maroon-bellied_Parakeet

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