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Blue-throated Conure  

Also Known As: Blue-throated Parakeet, Blue-chested Conure or Parakeet, Ochre-masked Conure or Parakeet, Red-rumped Conure or Parakeet, Red-eared Conure or Parakeet
 
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Captive Blue-throated Conure perched on branch

Credit: © Sam Williams
 
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Did You Know?
The female Blue-throated Conure tends to be heavier than the male, and more dominant and assertive.

Species Profile
Genus:
Pyrrhura

Species:
cruentata

Size: Adult Weight:
30cm (11.7 in) 90g (3.1 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Both adults partly green in colour; brown/red frontal band, lores and area around eyes to ear coverts; sides of neck yellow/orange; blue upper breast; blue collar encircling hindneck; lower back to rump red; centre of abdomen brown/red; olive tail. Bill grey. Eye ring bare and grey. Eye yellow.

Colourization Juvenile: In general duller than adults. Eye brown.

Call: Calls made in flight are high-pitched, chattering notes.

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Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E247.htm&Pic=247_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=1588&m=0

Internet Bird Collection http://ibc.lynxeds.com/

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

Parrots: Status Survey and Conservation Plan 2000-2004, Snyder, McGowan, Gilardi, Grajal, 2000.

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

Parrots of the World, Forshaw and Cooper, 1977.

Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.

Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.