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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
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.
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Species Profile
Genus:Pyrrhura
Species:
cruentata
| Size: | Adult Weight: |
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| 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/
ML Media Collection Catalogue 32262, Blue-throated Parakeet Pyrrhura cruentata, Parker, Theodore A., III, Espirito Santo, Brazil, Dec. 3 1982, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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.
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