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Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet  

Also Known As: Red-winged Parrotlet, Huet's Parrotlet
 
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Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet on bank

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The Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet is so quiet and shy that individual birds are easily overlooked, whereas whole flocks of these birds suddenly appear in trees, as if out of nowhere.

Species Profile
Genus:
Touit

Species:
huetii

Size: Adult Weight:
16cm (6.2 in) 60g (2.1 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Male- underparts with green and yellow; blue/black face, turning to deep blue on forecheeks; pale olive/brown ear coverts and crown; dull blue thighs; yellow undertail coverts; scarlet bend of wing, underwing coverts and axillary feathers; green central tail feathers widely tipped with black; side tail feathers dark red tipped with black. Bill olive/yellow with grey at base. Eye ring prominent and bare, and white. Eye dark brown. Female- green/yellow lateral tail feathers with black tips.

Colourization Juvenile: As in adult female but blue/black on forehead and lores absent.

Call: Calls made in flight are two-syllable tweeting notes; also nasal, whining notes repeated often.

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Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E288.htm&Pic=288_1.JPG

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

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

BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1632&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 of the World, Forshaw, 2006.