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Juvenile starting to get a few red feathers on its head. The red-masked parakeet (Psittacara erythrogenys) [2] is a medium-sized parrot from Ecuador and Peru. It is popular as a pet and are better known in aviculture as the cherry-headed conure [3] or the red-headed conure. [4] They are also considered the best talkers of all the conures. [5]
The scarlet-fronted parakeet (Psittacara wagleri), known in aviculture as the scarlet-fronted conure, red-fronted conure, or Wagler's conure, [3] is a Near Threatened species of bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela. [4] [1]
Red-masked parakeet: P. erythrogenys Lesson, 1844: i NT: Ecuador and northern Peru, west of the Andes mountains Cuban parakeet: P. euops (Wagler, 1832) g VU: Scattered areas in Cuba Finsch's parakeet: P. finschi (Salvin, 1871) LC: Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and western Panama (along the Pacific Ocean) Cordilleran parakeet: P. frontatus (Cabanis ...
Conures are as diverse a group as African parrots, so trying to characterize them all is difficult and inaccurate. The category conure is loosely defined because they do not currently constitute a natural, scientific grouping. The term conure is now used mostly in aviculture. Scientists tend to refer to these birds as "parrots" or "parakeets".
The rose-fronted parakeet is 20 to 23 cm (7.9 to 9.1 in) long. The sexes are the same in all subspecies. Adults of the nominate subspecies P. r. roseifrons have a bright red crown and face and dirty whitish ear coverts. Their upperparts are mostly green with a maroon-red red lower back and rump.
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Slender-billed parakeet Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) CITES Appendix II (CITES) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Psittaciformes Family: Psittacidae Genus: Enicognathus Species: E. leptorhynchus Binomial name Enicognathus leptorhynchus (King, 1831) Approximate range in green The slender-billed parakeet (Enicognathus ...
Several species, including red-lored parrots (Amazona autumnalis), lilac-crowned parrots (Amazona finschi) and yellow-chevroned parakeets (Brotogeris chiriri), have become well established in Southern California, and in San Francisco's Telegraph Hill area there is a population of mainly red-masked or cherry-headed parakeets, a female mitred ...