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Madeira Conure  

Also Known As: Madeira Parakeet
 
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Wild Madeira Conures (Pyrrhura snethlageae) perched

Credit: (c) Arthur Grosset | http://www.arthurgrosset.com
 
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Did You Know?
As of 2002, the Painted Conure group of approximately 9 subspecies was subdivided into a number of different new species, the Madeira Conure being one of the new ones.

Species Profile
Genus:
Pyrrhura

Species:
snethlageae

Size: Adult Weight:
22cm (8.6 in) 85g (3 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Both adults buff/white ear coverts; cream/buff upper breast, with dark brown feather shafts, and lower breast yellow/buff with feather shafts dark green; green bend of wing. Bill dark brown/grey. Eye ring bare and brown with yellow markings. Eye brown.

Colourization Juvenile: Undescribed

Call: Calls are like that of the Painted Conure: in flight coarse and forceful notes.

Recent Academic Research: Google Scholar - search results

 

Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E252.htm&Pic=252_1.JPG

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

Wikipedia http://www.answers.com/topic/bird-species-new-to-science-described-in-the-2000s

Central Pets http://www.centralpets.com/animals/birds/parrots/prt1352.html

Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.

Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.