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Spot-winged Parrotlet  

Also Known As: Brown-shouldered Parrotlet
 
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Credit: (c) Steve Milpacher
 
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Did You Know?
Parrotlets were kept in a French menagerie as long ago as 1682.

Species Profile
Genus:
Touit

Species:
stictoptera

Size: Adult Weight:
17cm (6.6 in) 71-84g (2.5-3 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Male- green/yellow in general; area around lores and eyes green/yellow; black/brown bend of wing; brown scapulars, lesser wing coverts and inner median wing coverts with white spotting; dull orange on outer two median wing coverts; dark brown secondaries and secondary coverts; green underwing coverts; uppertail green with red /brown margins on inner webs of lateral feathers; undertail olive/yellow. Bill olive/yellow with grey at base. Eye yellow/brown. Female- green upperwing coverts with exposed black bases to feathers; brighter yellow lores and forecheeks; brown primary coverts widely edged with green.

Colourization Juvenile: As in adult female.

Call: Calls made in flight are harsh and high-pitched, or raspy.

Recent Academic Research: Google Scholar - search results

 

Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E293.htm&Pic=293_1.JPG

BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1638&m=0

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

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

Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.