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Maroon-fronted Parrot
Also Known As: Maroon-fronted Macawlet
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Did You Know?
The diet of the Maroon-fronted Parrot, like that of the Thick-billed Parrot, is almost exclusively pine seeds.
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Not AvailableSpecies Profile
Genus:Rhynchopsitta
Species:
terrisi
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| 40cm (15.6 in) | Not available |
Races including nominate:
one
Colourization Adult: Both adults: dark green body, paler green on cheeks and ear coverts; forehead, forecrown dark maroon stripe; bend of wing, carpal edge and thighs dark red; greater underwing coverts grey/olive. Bill black, bare eye ring brown/yellow, eye orange/yellow.
Colourization Juvenile: As in adult but with maroon stripe absent, bend of wing and carpal edge green; less red on thighs. Bill horn coloured with grey at base of upper mandible. Eye brown.
Call: Notes are high-pitched and rolling.
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Content Sources:
CITES http://www.cites.org/eng/resources/species.html
BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1585&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: Status Survey and Conservation Plan 2000-2004, Snyder, McGowan, Gilardi and Grajal, 2000.
Parrots of the World, Forshaw and Cooper, 1977.
Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.
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