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Alternative name: Flame-winged Parakeet

Photo by COLOMBIA Birding
Eastern Andes, Colombia, June 2013
Pyrrhura calliptera

Identification

Distribution

South America: found in the eastern Andes of Colombia (Boyacá and Cundinamarca).

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Habitat

Cloud forest

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2012. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2012. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist

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