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Rose-fronted Conure  

Also Known As: Rose-fronted Parakeet, Red-crowned Conure or Parakeet
 
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Credit: (c) Steve Milpacher
 
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Did You Know?
The Rose-fronted Conure is one of only two Pyrrhura conures to have bright rose/red on its crown, the other being the Rose-crowned Conure (P. rhodocephala).

Species Profile
Genus:
Pyrrhura

Species:
roseifrons

Size: Adult Weight:
22cm (8.6 in) 54-70g (1.9-2.5 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Both adults partly green; rose/red forehead and face; maroon/brown lower cheeks; pale yellow ear coverts; dull green/brown breast scalloped with green/yellow; red bend of wing and carpal edge; brown/maroon patch on abdomen; brown/red tail becoming green at base. Bill dark grey. Eye ring bare and cream/white. Eye brown.

Colourization Juvenile: Dark maroon/brown forehead and face; buff/white ear coverts; grey/green upper breast scalloped with yellow/green; green lower breast; green bend of wing and carpal edge; brown/red patch on abdomen less evident; shorter tail.

Call: Calls made in flight are coarse and forceful staccato notes.

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Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E252.htm&Pic=252_1.JPG

Central Pets http://www.centralpets.com/animals/birds/parrots/prt1352.html

Parrots: A Guide to Parrots of the World, Juniper and Parr, 1998.

Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.

Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.