- Psittacara wagleri
Includes: Cordilleran Parakeet
Identification
34–36 cm 13¼-14¼ in
- Green overall plumage
- Yellower on underparts
- Red forehead and crown
- Red flecks on thoat
- White orbital ring (bare skin
Sexes similar
Distribution
South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
Taxonomy
Formerly placed in genus Aratinga.
Subspecies
- P. w. wagleri:
- P. w. transilis:
- Extreme eastern Colombia to northern Venezuela
- P. w. frontatus:
- P. w. minor:
- Central and southern-central Peru (Marañón Valley south to Ayacucho)
Gill and Donsker split frontatus and minor as Cordilleran Parakeet, Psittacara frontatus.
Habitat
Light evergreen cloud forests and forest edges, disturbed secondary rain forest. Mixed woodland and agricultural areas. Sewage ponds surrounded by rice fields. Observed at heights ranging between 698 m and 1,110 m.
Behaviour
Diet
They normally feed up in the canopy on a variety of fruit and nuts.
Breeding
They build their nests in a crack in a cliff face.
References
- 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/
- Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2017. IOC World Bird Names (version 7.2). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
- Avibase
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved June 2017)
- BF Member observations
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Scarlet-fronted Parakeet. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 13 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Scarlet-fronted_Parakeet
