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Yellow-faced Parrotlet
Yellow-faced Parrotlet on cactus
Credit: © Nik Athanas
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Did You Know?
Parrotlets were kept in France as long ago as 1682.
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Species Profile
Genus:Forpus
Species:
xanthops
| Size: | Adult Weight: |
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| 14.5cm (5.6 in) | 35g (1.2 oz) |
Races including nominate:
one
Colourization Adult: Male-bright yellow forehead, crown, cheeks and throat; occiput and nape purple/grey, extending in a stripe to eye; olive/grey mantle, upper back and lesser wing coverts to scapulars and inner secondary feathers; deep blue lower back, rump, upper tail coverts and underwing coverts; purple/blue secondary coverts; inner primary feathers suffused with blue at bases; green/yellow underparts. Bill horn in colour with grey at base of upper mandible. Eye brown. Female-as in male but lower back and rump paler blue in colour; primary and secondary coverts, secondary feathers and bases to primary feathers all green tinged with blue.
Colourization Juvenile: As in adults but dull overall, less yellow on face. Grey absent on bill.
Call: Quiet tweets and chirps
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Content Sources:
Central Pets
Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E277.htm&Pic=277_1.JPG
Petco http://www.petco.com/caresheets/bird/Parrotlet.pdf#search=%22Parrotlet%20life%20span%22
BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1620&m=0
CITES http://www.cites.org/eng/resources/species.html
Internet Bird Collection http://ibc.lynxeds.com/
ML Media Collection Catalogue 11041, Yellow-faced Parrotlet Forpus xanthops, Parker, Theodore A., III, Amazonas, Peru, Aug. 8 1975, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Parrots: A Guide to the Parrots of the World, Juniper and Parr, 1998.
Parrots: Status Survey and Conservation Plan 2000-2004, Snyder, McGowan, Gilardi and Grajal, 2000.
Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.
Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.
Psittacine Aviculture, Schubot, Clubb and Clubb, 1992.
Parrots: Their Care and Breeding, Low, 1986.
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