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Black-capped Conure  

Also Known As: Black-capped Parakeet, Rock Conure
 
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Black-capped Conure

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Did You Know?
The Black-capped Conure may breed in the wild with the Green-cheeked Conure, producing hybrids.

Species Profile
Genus:
Pyrrhura

Species:
rupicola

Size: Adult Weight:
25cm (9.75 in) 70g (2.45 oz)

Races including nominate:
two: P.r. rupicola, P.r. sandiae

Colourization Adult:
P.r. rupicola: both adults black forehead to occiput; green cheeks, ear coverts and line above eye; black hindneck with off white scalloping to feathers; dark brown breast scalloped with off white; lower breast washed with dull yellow; red primary coverts and carpal edge; green tail. Bill black. Bare eye ring grey, eye brown. P.r. sandiae: both adults narrower off white scalloping to feathers of neck and breast; on hindneck almost none.

Colourization Juvenile: As in adults but duller; green primary coverts and carpal edge. Cere and bare eye ring white.

Call: Calls made in flight high pitched yapping sounds.

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Recent Academic Research: Google Scholar - search results

 

Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E257.htm&Pic=257_1.JPG

Central Pets http://www.centralpets.com/animals/birds/parrots/prt1370.html

CITES http://www.cites.org/eng/resources/species.html

BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1600&m=0

Internet Bird Collection http://www.hbw.com/ibc/

xeno-cano America http://www.xeno-canto.org/index.php

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

Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.

Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.