Madeira Conure |
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Also known as: Madeira Parakeet
Wild Madeira Conures
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Genus: Pyrrhura | Species: snethlageae
Size:
22cm (8.6 in)
Weight:
85g (3 oz)
Subspecies including nominate:
one
Colour Adult:
Both adults buff/white ear coverts; cream/buff upper breast, with dark brown feather shafts, and lower breast yellow/buff with feather shafts dark green; green bend of wing. Bill dark brown/grey. Eye ring bare and brown with yellow markings. Eye brown.
Colour Juvenile:
Not recorded.
Call:
Calls are like that of the Painted Conure: in flight coarse and forceful notes.
Video Links:
Video 1 | Video 2More Information:
Content Sources:
Wikipedia
BirdLife International
Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006. 2010 edition
Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.
Lexicon of Parrots, Thomas Arndt.
Wild Madeira Conures
© Birthe and Bent Pedersen
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The Madeira Conure was once conspecific with Santarem Conure (Pyrrhura amazonum).Academic Research
Related publications: Pyrrhura snethlageaeSpecies Care
Captive Status:
Virtually unknown.
Longevity:
Probably 13-15 yrs
Housing:
Aviary or suspended enclosure, minimum length 2m (6.5 ft).
Diet:
Probably fruits such as: apple, pear, banana, orange, cactus fruits, pomegranate, forming about 30 percent of diet; vegetables such as: carrot, celery, green beans and peas in the pod; fresh corn; green leaves such as: Swiss chard, lettuce, sowthistle, dandelion, chickweed; spray millet; small seed mix such as: canary, millet, and smaller amounts of oats, buckwheat, safflower and a little hemp; soaked and sprouted sunflower seed; cooked beans and pulses, boiled maize and complete pellet.
Enrichment:
Likely avid chewers, so provide bird safe, unsprayed fir, pine, willow and flowering branches, wooden toys, heat sterilized pine cones, vegetable tanned leather toys; also puzzle/foraging toys, swings, ropes and ladders. Also like other Pyrrhura sp. the Madeira conure probably would enjoy bathing so provide overhead misters or shallow bathing bowls.
Nest Box Size:
Nest log.
Clutch Size:
Probably 4-8.
Incubation Time:
Probably 23 days.
Fledging Age:
Probably 40-51 days.
Hatch Weight:
Not recorded.
Peak Weight:
Not recorded.
Weaning Weight:
Not recorded.
Wild Madeira Conures
© Birthe and Bent Pedersen
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The Madeira Conure was once conspecific with Santarem Conure (Pyrrhura amazonum).Academic Research
Related publications: Pyrrhura snethlageaeSpecies Wild Status
World Population:
Unknown, decreasing.
IUCN Red List Status:
Least Concern
CITES Listing:
Not listed
Threat Summary:
Threatened by deforestation in the Amazon basin as land is cleared for cattle ranching and soy production. Forest loss has been increasing since 2016. Population declines are not likely to exceed 20% over three generations, but an accurate estimate is urgently required.
Range:
Found south of the Amazon/Solimoes in SC Brazil and northernmost Bolivia, in the Madeiran drainage east to the Tapajos and the Rio Tele Pires in the south.
Habitat:
Found up to 300m (984 ft) in riverine terra firme and varzea forest; in south, stunted forest with large bamboo clumps along waterways; also forest margins and in nearby clearings with remnant forest.
Wild Diet:
Probably fruits, berries, flowers, seeds and vegetable matter in the form of leaves and buds, as well as insects and their larvae.
Ecology and Behaviour:
Are resident; usually seen in small flocks of up to 10-15 birds. Flight is erratic and unpredictable; birds are conspicuous and noisy flitting about in or above the forest canopy.
Clutch and Egg Size:
Probably 4-8 eggs.
Breeding Season:
Probably July-December
Wild Madeira Conures
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The Madeira Conure was once conspecific with Santarem Conure (Pyrrhura amazonum).Academic Research
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