Cobalt-winged Parakeet - BirdForum Opus

Brotogeris cyanoptera

Photo by Stanley Jones
Macaw clay lick near Manu Wildlife Center Lodge, Peru, September 2009

Identification

18cm

• Yellow green upperparts
• Yellow forehead and lores
• Orange chin
• Green wing bend, carpal edge and underwing coverts
• Purple-blue primary coverts
• Dark blue central tail feathers with green margins
• Pale horn bill, tipped brown
• Bare white eyering
• Dark brown iris

Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 3 subspecies^[1]:

• B. c. cyanoptera:

• South-eastern Colombia to southern Venezuela, eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru and west-central Brazil

• B. c. gustavi:

• Northern Peru (upper Río Huallaga Valley)

• B. c. beniensis:

• Northern Bolivia (Beni)

Habitat

Moist lowland and river-edge forests observed at heights around 155 m.

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes seeds. Feeds at clay licks.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia
4. World Parrot Trust
5. BF Member observations

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Cobalt-winged Parakeet. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 16 June 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Cobalt-winged_Parakeet

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