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Fiery-shouldered Conure  

Also Known As: Fiery-shouldered Parakeet
 
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Fiery-shouldered Conure close up

Credit: © Steve Brookes | http://www.wildparrotsupclose.co.uk
 
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Did You Know?
The Pyrrhura conures are known as the escape artists in aviculture. Their inquisitiveness leads them to investigate any and every way possible to get out of their enclosures.

Species Profile
Genus:
Pyrrhura

Species:
egregia

Size: Adult Weight:
26cm (10.1 in) 75g (2.6 oz)

Races including nominate:
two: P.e. egregia, P.e. obscura

Colourization Adult: P.e. egregia: both adults green breast with yellow/white and brown barring; brown/red centre of abdomen; yellow bend of wing, carpal edge and lesser underwing coverts, marked with orange/red; brown/red uppertail, dark grey undertail. Bill horn in colour. Eye ring bare and white. Eye brown. P.e. obscura: both adults as in egregia, but with darker green upperparts and slightly darker green underparts; brown/red on abdomen minimal or absent.

Colourization Juvenile: P.e. egregia: green carpal edge and lesser underwing coverts; breast has less barring.

Call: Calls made in flight are described as harsh and grating, heard before the birds are seen.

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Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E253.htm&Pic=253_1.JPG

BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1597&m=0

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

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

xeno-canto 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.

A Guide to Popular Conures As Pet and Aviary Birds, Dorge and Sibley, 2001.