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==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
It's stocky like a tiny Amazon parrot. Mainly green, it has powder-blue lores and forehead, paler yellow-green cheeks and chin. | It's stocky like a tiny Amazon parrot. Mainly green, it has powder-blue lores and forehead, paler yellow-green cheeks and chin. | ||
==Distribution== | ==Distribution== | ||
| − | The Amazonian Parrotlet, Nannopsittaca dachilleae, is a recently described native parrot of the western Amazon basin, and can be found from southern Peru to northwest Bolivia. | + | The Amazonian Parrotlet, ''Nannopsittaca dachilleae'', is a recently described native parrot of the western Amazon basin, and can be found from southern [[Peru]] to northwest [[Bolivia]]. |
==Taxonomy== | ==Taxonomy== | ||
==Habitat== | ==Habitat== | ||
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Revision as of 15:15, 19 July 2008
- Nannopsittaca dachilleae
Identification
It's stocky like a tiny Amazon parrot. Mainly green, it has powder-blue lores and forehead, paler yellow-green cheeks and chin.
Distribution
The Amazonian Parrotlet, Nannopsittaca dachilleae, is a recently described native parrot of the western Amazon basin, and can be found from southern Peru to northwest Bolivia.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Its habitat is the lowland forests near bamboo and rivers.
Behaviour
It's not well known, but considered near threatened. It eats primarily seeds and fruit and seems to nest in bromeliads or other epiphytes. Flocks are small, under 20 individuals
Bird Song
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