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Red-eared Conure  

Also Known As: Blood-eared Parakeet, Red-eared Parakeet
 
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Wild Red-eared Conure (Pyrrhura hoematotis) under leaf canopy

Credit: (c) Ron Hoff
 
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The Red-eared Conure is apparently quite approachable in the wild, not paying much heed to human observers close by.

Species Profile
Genus:
Pyrrhura

Species:
hoematotis

Size: Adult Weight:
25cm (9.75 in) Not available

Races including nominate:
two: P.h. hoematotis, P.h. immarginata

Colourization Adult: P.h. hoematotis: both adults mostly green in general; brown/red ear coverts; brown/grey margins to feathers on sides of neck; green breast tinted with olive and barred with dusty grey; green/blue carpal edge; brown/red tail tipped with olive/green. Bill pale brown/grey. Eye ring bare and white. Eye brown. P.h. immarginata: both adults as in hoematotis, but without brown/grey margins to feathers on neck; light banding on breast, no grey barring.

Colourization Juvenile: Undescribed.

Call: Calls are described as rapid and short notes, repeated to give rolling effect.

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Recent Academic Research: Google Scholar - search results

 

Content Sources:

Central Pets http://www.centralpets.com/animals/birds/parrots/prt1342.html

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E259.htm&Pic=259_1.JPG

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

BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1603&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 and Cooper, 1977.

Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.

Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.