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Plum-crowned Parrot  

Also Known As: Plum-crowned Pionus, Tschudi's Parrot, Speckle-faced Parrot, Restless Parrot
 
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Profile of Plum-crowned Pionus parrot (Pionus tumultosis)

Credit: (c) Jonker/Innemee Araproject | http://www.araproject.nl
 
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The Plum-crowned Parrot is also called the Restless Parrot, due to its flighty, nervous behaviour.

Species Profile
Genus:
Pionus

Species:
tumultuosus

Size: Adult Weight:
29cm (11.3 in) 250g (8.75 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Both adults generally green, paler on underparts; dark red crown and nape; red feathers on sides of head tipped with purple, with visible white bases; wine/purple hindneck and sides of neck to breast; red undertail coverts tinted with purple; green tail with red at base. Bill olive/yellow. Eye ring bare and pale grey. Eye brown.

Colourization Juvenile: Dark green nape and hindcrown; rose/red throat; green cheeks and breast; yellow/green undertail coverts, marked with pink.

Call: Calls described as distinctive; those made in flight are smooth notes with a laughing quality, or harsher sounds. While perched emits nasal tones.

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Content Sources:

Article "Plumhead Pionus," by Susan Clubb, DVM. http://www.cyberparrots.com/phpionus.html

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

BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1656&m=0

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, 2006.

Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.

Psittacine Aviculture, Schubot, Clubb and Clubb, 1992.