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Black-capped Conure
Also Known As: Black-capped Parakeet, Rock Conure
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Did You Know?
The Black-capped Conure may breed in the wild with the Green-cheeked Conure, producing hybrids.
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Species Profile
Genus:Pyrrhura
Species:
rupicola
| Size: | Adult Weight: |
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| 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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Content Sources:
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Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E257.htm&Pic=257_1.JPG
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://ibc.lynxeds.com/
ML Media Collection Catalogue 29454 Black-capped Parakeet (Pyrrhura rupicola), Parker, Theodore A., III, Madre de Dios, Peru, Jul. 23 1982, Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Parrots: A Guide to Parrots of the World, Juniper and Parr, 1998.
Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.
Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.
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