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Bosque Cerro Blanco, Guayaquil, Ecuador, December 2005
Brotogeris pyrrhoptera

Identification

20 cm

  • Bluish-green crown

Distribution

Western Ecuador and extreme north-western Peru

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Habitat

Arid scrub.

Behaviour

Diet

They eat flowers, petals and seeds.

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. Avibase
  3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved June 2014)

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