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Sierra Parakeet  

Also Known As: Aymara Parakeet, Gray-hooded Parakeet
 
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Gray-hooded or Sierra Parakeet foraging in the wild

Credit: (c) Ron Hoff
 
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Did You Know?
The Sierra Parakeet hen may raise six to seven young successfully in one clutch.

Species Profile
Genus:
Bolborhynchus

Species:
aymara

Size: Adult Weight:
20cm (7.8 in) 45g (1.6 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Both adults grey/brown forehead, lores and area around eyes to ear coverts; grey/brown crown to nape; pale grey throat and breast; pale blue/grey upper abdomen mixed with yellow/green. Bill flesh/pink. Eye brown.

Colourization Juvenile: In general duller than adults; dull yellow/green lower breast to abdomen; shorter tail.

Call: Calls made in flight and while feeding are high-pitched and twittering, sounding much like swallows.

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Recent Academic Research: Google Scholar - search results

 

Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E266.htm&Pic=266_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=1609&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.

Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.

Parrots: Their Care and Breeding, Low, 1986.