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Slender-billed Conure  

Also Known As: Slender-billed Conure
 
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Slender-billed Conure perching

Credit: (c) Arthur Grosset | http://www.arthurgrosset.com
 
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Did You Know?
The two species in the genus Enicognathus are the Slender-billed and Austral Conures. They are closely related to the Pyrrhura conures.

Species Profile
Genus:
Enicognathus

Species:
leptorhynchus

Size: Adult Weight:
40cm (15.6 in) 240g (8.4 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Both adults in general dull green with dusky black barring; dull crimson forehead and lores, red reaching to beneath and behind eye; centre of abdomen has brown/red patch; brown/red tail. Brown/grey bill, upper mandible elongated and less curved. Eye ring pink/grey. Eye red.

Colourization Juvenile: In general darker green and less yellow; red confined to forehead and lores; upper mandible shorter and has horn coloured tip. Eye ring white.

Call: Calls are described as incessant and screeching when in flight or disturbed; also loud, harsh notes when perched. Feeding is accompanied by shrill chattering. Contact calls heard from a distance.

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Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E264.htm&Pic=264_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=1607&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.

Parrots: Their Care and Breeding, Low, 1986.