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Sulphur-winged Conure
Also Known As: Sulphur-winged Parakeet, Hoffmann's Conure or Parakeet
Species Profile
Genus:Pyrrhura
Species:
hoffmanni
| Size: | Adult Weight: |
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| 24cm (9.3 in) | 84g (3 oz) |
Races including nominate:
two: P.h. hoffmanni, P.h. gaudens
Colourization Adult: P.h. hoffmanni: both adults have variable plumage; shafts of feathers of head and throat streaked and tipped with yellow; dark red ear coverts; yellow inner primary feathers and outer secondary feathers, becoming green at tips; red/olive uppertail margined with green. Bill horn in colour. Eye ring bare and white. Eye brown. P.h. gaudens: both adults shafts of crown feathers and occiput streaked green/yellow to orange/red and lightly tipped with dull red.
Colourization Juvenile: P.h. hoffmanni: in general duller than adults; minimal yellow streaking to shafts of feathers on head and throat; minimal yellow on primary and secondary feathers. P.h. gaudens: as in hoffmanni; streaking of shafts of head and throat absent.
Call: Calls made in flight are high-pitched and piping; while perched are penetrating and somewhat harsh.
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Content Sources:
Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E262.htm&Pic=262_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=1605&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, 2006.
Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.
Parrots: Their Care and Breeding, Low, 1986.
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