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Nanday Conure  

Also Known As: Black-headed Conure or Parakeet, Black-masked Conure
 
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Nanday Conure foraging on leaves

Credit: (c) Luis Cesar Tejo | License: ShutterStock
 
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There is a feral (non-native) population of Nanday Conures in Florida that numbers around 900 birds.

Species Profile
Genus:
Nandayus

Species:
nenday

Size: Adult Weight:
30cm (11.7 in) 140g (5 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Both adults underparts green/yellow; forehead to nape and face black; throat and upper breast washed with blue; general body colour green/olive; thighs orange/red in colour; tail olive/green tipped with blue. Bill black. Bare eye ring pink. Eye brown.

Colourization Juvenile: As in adults but less blue on throat and breast; shorter tail.

Call: In flight calls are clamorous, screeching; while perched shrill chattering.

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Content Sources:

Central Pets http://www.centralpets.com/animals/birds/parrots/prt1324.html

International Conure Association http://www.conure.org/nandayus_nenday.htm

BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1581&m=0

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

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

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 and Cooper, 1977.

Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.

Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.

Psittacine Aviculture, Schubot, Clubb and Clubb, 1992.