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White-winged Parakeet - BirdForum Opus

Alternative name: Canary-winged Parakeet

Photo © by Joseph Morlan
Río Ucayali--Desembocadura, Peru, 9 June 2019
Brotogeris versicolurus

Identification

Photo © by Luiz Ribenboim
Careiro da Varzea, Amazonas, Brazil, 22 September 2016

21-25cm (8¼-9¾ in)

  • Green
  • Dark green on breast and underparts
  • Bright yellow outer wing edges, epaulet and primaries
  • White wing patches
  • Blue under tail
  • Brown iris
  • Pale bill
  • Pinkish legs

Sexes similar
Immatures are similar to adults, but with yellow greater coverts edged green, similar to immature Yellow-chevroned Parakeets.

Similar Species

Yellow-chevroned Parakeet lacks white wing patches and has darker bill.

Distribution

South America: found in the lowlands of south-eastern Colombia, eastern Peru and Amazonian Brazil.

There are introduced locally in the United States (California & Florida) and in the Caribbean where well established in Puerto Rico. Also around Lima, Peru, and Guayaquil City, Ecuador

Taxonomy

Formerly lumped with Yellow-chevroned Parakeet under the name Canary-winged Parakeet

Subspecies

This is a monotypic species[1].

Habitat

Mixed farm and woodland, gallery forest, coastal cliffs and urban areas

Behaviour

Breeding

They nest in tree hollows or in nests of tree termites. The 3-6 white eggs are incubated for 23-26 days (male incubating at night); the young fledging about 50-60 days later.

Diet

There is little known about what non-captive birds each, apart from seeds and fruit.

Vocalisations

Typically lower pitched and less squeaky than chirp calls of Yellow-chevroned Parakeet, described as chra or doubled chra-chra given both in flight and perched. Also a variety of chatter calls.

Movements

Probably sedentary.

References

  1. 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/
  2. Avibase
  3. BirdForum member observations
  4. Collar, N., Bonan, A. & Boesman, P. (2019). White-winged Parakeet (Brotogeris versicolurus). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from https://www.hbw.com/node/54692 on 3 July 2019).
  5. Brightsmith, D., K. R. Burgio, B. J. Hiller, K. E. Block, P. Pyle, and M. A. Patten (2017). White-winged Parakeet (Brotogeris versicolurus), version 3.0. In The Birds of North America (P. G. Rodewald, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bna.whwpar.03
  6. White-winged Parakeet (Brotogeris versicolurus), In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. retrieved from Neotropical Birds Online: https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/whwpar

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