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Sulphur-winged Conure  

Also Known As: Sulphur-winged Parakeet, Hoffmann's Conure or Parakeet
 
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Sulphur-winged Conure profile

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The Sulphur-winged Conure is the only Pyrrhura conure with yellow on its primary feathers. It is also the only member of its genus in its range.

Species Profile
Genus:
Pyrrhura

Species:
hoffmanni

Size: Adult Weight:
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/

ML Media Collection Catalogue 28283, Sulphur-winged Parakeet Pyrrhura hoffmanni, van den Berg, Arnoud, Chiriqui, Panama, Apr. 22 1981, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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.