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Azuero Conure  

Also Known As: Azuero Parakeet
 
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Credit: (c) Steve Milpacher
 
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Did You Know?
The Azuero Conure is sometimes listed as a subspecies of the Painted Conure. Forshaw (2006) lists this species separately.

Species Profile
Genus:
Pyrrhura

Species:
eisenmanni

Size: Adult Weight:
22cm (8.6 in) Probably 54-70g (1.9-2.5 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Both adults mostly green; black/brown forehead and crown to nape; frontal band to lores and around eyes thin and red; buff/white ear coverts; faint, blue nuchal collar; dark brown upper breast scalloped with white; dark green/blue lower breast scalloped with buff/white and yellow; green bend of wing. Bill black. Eye ring bare and grey/brown. Eye brown yellow.

Colourization Juvenile: Undescribed.

Call: Calls made in flight are short; some single loud notes from birds contact calling flock; while perched harsh, gutteral notes; soft notes while preening.

Recent Academic Research: Google Scholar - search results

 

Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E252.htm&Pic=252_1.JPG

Central Pets http://www.centralpets.com/animals/birds/parrots/prt1352.html

Parrots: A Guide to Parrots of the World, Juniper and Parr, 1998.

Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.

Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.