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Photo by arthurgrosset
Jaqueira, Pernambuco, Brazil, March 2004
Touit surdus

Identification

16 cm
Bright green with yellow round the blue eye-ring and looking almost pink on the forehead. The primaries are black and the short, square tail is golden-yellow with black tips though the central rectrices are green.

Distribution

South America: endemic to eastern Brazil (Pernambuco to São Paulo).

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Habitat

Atlantic forest fragments. Lowland evergreen and sand-plain forest.

Behaviour

They fly fast and high.

Diet

Little is known, apart from eating fruit.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2013. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.8., with updates to August 2013. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. BF Member observations
  3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved May 2014)

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