- Pionites leucogaster
Identification
23cm (9 in)
- Orange forehead, crown and nape
- Yellow face, neck sides and upper breast
- White belly
- Green upperparts
- Reddish-brown eye with pink eye ring
- Pinkish bill, legs and feet
Juveniles:
- Apricot cap with dark flecks
- White belly has yellow streaks
- Brown eye with grey eyering
Distribution
Subspecies xanthomerius
Photo © by Stanley Jones
Chuncho Lodge, Madre de Dios Department, Peru, August 2018
Photo © by Stanley Jones
Chuncho Lodge, Madre de Dios Department, Peru, August 2018
South America: found in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil
Taxonomy
Subspecies
There are 3 subspecies[1]:
- P. l. xanthomerius (Black-legged): green tail and black feet
- E Peru and n Bolivia to w Brazil south of the Amazon
- P. l. xanthurus (Yellow-tailed: yellow tail, flanks and thighs
- Brazil s of the Amazon (R. Purús and R. Juruá to R. Madeira)
- P. l. leucogaster (Green-thighed) : Green upper tail and green thighs
- N Brazil south of the Amazon (Rio Madeira to Maranhão)
Habitat
Humid tropical terra firme forests, especially seasonally flooded forests; also riverine woodland.rivers.
Behaviour
Diet
There is very little information available. They are known to eat fruit and petals.
Breeding
A single nest recorded at 30 m high in a tree, held two yellow eggs.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved October 2018)
- World Parrot Trust
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) White-bellied Parrot. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 4 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/White-bellied_Parrot
