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Yellow-faced Parrot  

Also Known As: Yellow-fronted Parrot, Shoa Parrot
 
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Adult Yellow-faced parrot

Credit: (c) Roland Seitre
 
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Did You Know?
Poicephalus means, literally, "made of head."

Species Profile
Genus:
Poicephalus

Species:
flavifrons

Size: Adult Weight:
28cm (11 in) Not available

Races including nominate:
Possibly two: P.f. flavifrons, P.f. aurantiiceps

Colourization Adult:
P.f. flavifrons: medium sized parrot; mainly green plumage with bright yellow face and crown; tail olive/brown; thighs and carpal edge occasionally marked yellow; dark upper, pale lower mandible. Eye orange/red. Bare cere and eye ring grey. P.f. aurantiiceps: as in flavifrons but face yellow washed with orange.

Colourization Juvenile: As in adult but face duller yellow/olive green. Eye brown.

Call: Loud, shrill whistles and screeches.

Recent Academic Research: Google Scholar - search results

 

Content Sources:

Article "Genus Poicephalus - New Taxonomic Insights," by Mike Perrin http://www.oldworldaviaries.com/text/lewis/poicephalus-taxonomy.htm

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E168.htm&Pic=168_1.JPG

BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1502&m=0

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

Internet Bird Collection http://www.hbw.com/ibc/

PsittaScene, no. 52

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

Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.