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Maroon-faced Conure
Also Known As: Maroon-faced Parakeet, Pfrimer's Conure or Parakeet
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Did You Know?
The Maroon-faced Conure was once a subspecies of the White-eared Conure, Pyrrhura leucotis.
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Not AvailableSpecies Profile
Genus:Pyrrhura
Species:
pfrimeri
| Size: | Adult Weight: |
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| 22cm (8.6 in) | Not available |
Races including nominate:
one
Colourization Adult: Both adults brown/red face and ear coverts; dull blue crown to hindneck; dull green/blue throat, the feathers having white margins; blue/green breast barred with white and dark brown; brown/red centre of abdomen and patch on lower back to upper tail coverts; red bend of wing; maroon tail with green at bases of outer webs of lateral feathers. Bill grey/black. Eye ring grey/white. Eye brown/orange.
Colourization Juvenile: Undescribed
Call: As in White-eared Conure, in flight sharp notes repeated rapidly three or four times; also high-pitched, short notes and small peeps while perched.
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Content Sources:
Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E251.htm&Pic=251_1.JPG
BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=32205&m=0
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.
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