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Spectacled Parrotlet
Forpus conspicillatus

Spectacled Parrotlet

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Description:

Spectacled Parrotlet

12,7 to 13,9 cm.. height.

The male of the Spectacled Parrotlet (Forpus conspicillatus) has a yellowish green forehead extending the cheeks and to the throat.

The underparts They are slightly off in colouration, with a bluish gray suffusion in chest. The area surrounding the eyes It is cobalt blue. The wings and upperparts is dark green, with the back and rump blue-violet color, with a darker shade on own rear.

The bill Pink is white. The legs They are pink. The irises is dark brown.

the colors of the female they are duller in terms of the general coloring. Their upperparts They are brighter, with the area around the eyes, emerald green. The underparts They are more yellowish green.

Description 3 subspecies:

  • Forpus conspicillatus caucae

    (Chapman, 1915) – It is paler and blue around the eyes is lighter and is just behind these.


  • Forpus conspicillatus conspicillatus

    (Lafresnaye, 1848) – Nominal.


  • Forpus conspicillatus metae

    (Borrero & Hernandez-Camacho, 1961) – Blue around eyes It is very small.

Habitat:

It is very common. It is found in varied ecosystems, patches of forest, clear with scattered trees, cultivated areas, from 200 m to 1800 m (migrate attitudinally up 2600 metres in Bogotá). They are noisy flocks of more of 120 individuals.

Reproduction:

Nest in postholes and termiteros.

Food:

Feeds on grass and weed seeds, fruit, berries, flowers and buds.

Distribution:

Size of the area of distribution (reproduction / resident): 822.000 km2

Patchy and discontinuous distribution. east of Panama, Colombia and West of Venezuela.

Distribution 3 subspecies:

  • Forpus conspicillatus caucae

    (Chapman, 1915) – Southwest of Colombia, to the West of the Andes (Cauca and Nariño); possibly west of Ecuador.


  • Forpus conspicillatus conspicillatus

    (Lafresnaye, 1848) – Nominal. From the tropical eastern Panama north central Colombia.


  • Forpus conspicillatus metae

    (Borrero & Hernandez-Camacho, 1961) – Slope of the Andes of Colombia to the west end of Venezuela.

Conservation:

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• Current category of the Red List of the UICN: Least concern.

• Population trend: In increased.

Justification of the population

The size of the world population It has not been quantified, but this species is described as «common» (Stotz et to the., 1996).

Justification of trend

It is suspected that the population is increasing as habitat degradation is creating new areas of suitable habitat.

"Spectacled Parrotlet" in captivity:

In captivity is common in some European countries, rare elsewhere. It is a bird lively, Intelligent and with attitude. They are highly valued for being quiet; they can learn many words and whistle very well. Son loving and they love spending time with their owners, However, they are happy and independent enough to happily play with their toys while the owner is absent. Need much space as it is a bird very active, as well as different toys.

Alternative names:

Spectacled Parrotlet (English).
Toui à lunettes, Perruche-moineau à lunettes (French).
Brillensperlingspapagei, Augenring-Sperlingspapagei, Brillenpapagei (German).
Tuim-da-colômbia (Portuguese).
Catita Enana Pálida, Cotorrita de Anteojos, Periquito de Anteojos (español).
Periquito Ojiazul (Venezuela).

scientific classification:

Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Genus: Forpus
Scientific name: Forpus conspicillatus
Citation: (Lafresnaye, 1848)
Protonimo: Psittacula conspicillata

Images Spectacled Parrotlet:

Videos of the "Spectacled Parrotlet"



Species of the genus Forpus

Spectacled Parrotlet (Forpus conspicillatus)


    Sources:

    Avibase
    – Parrots of the World – Forshaw Joseph M
    – Parrots A Guide to the Parrots of the World – Tony Juniper & Mike Parr
    Birdlife
    – parrots book, parrots and macaws Neotropical.

    Photos:

    (1) – A female Spectacled Parrotlet in Manizales, Caldas, By Julian Londono from Colombia Manizales, Colombia [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
    (2) – A male Spectacled Parrotlet in Manizales, Caldas, By Julian Londono from Colombia Manizales, Colombia [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
    (3) – A pair of Spectacled Parrotlets in Manizales, Caldas, By Julian Londono from Colombia Manizales, Colombia [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
    (4) – A male Spectacled Parrotlet in Colombia just outside the entrance of its nest By Rogier Klappe [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
    (5) – Spectacled Parrotlet (Forpus conspicillatus) by Ron KnightFlickr
    (6) – PSITTACULA CONSPICILLATA By Internet Archive Book Images [No restrictions], via Wikimedia Commons

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Fiery shouldered Parakeet
Pyrrhura egregia


Fiery shouldered Parakeet

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Fiery shouldered Parakeet

25 cm.. height.

The Fiery shouldered Parakeet (Pyrrhura egregia) has a close frontal band brown; crown, lores, rear area of the neck and upper cheeks, brownish; ear-coverts reddish brown; feathers on the sides of the neck basically green with subterminal band of color beige, narrow dark tips giving a scaly appearance to the whole.

The upperparts Green with dark and narrow edges to some feathers. carpal area and front edge of the wing , Orange with yellow marks; primary coverts usually blue but sometimes colored yellow shiny; upperwing-coverts green. Outerwebs of flight feather, blue. Underwing-coverts marked with yellow orange; bottom of the flight feather gray. feathers in the throat and the chest basically green with the subterminal band Hazelnut color and dark tips, giving a scaly appearance; underparts green, with most of the feathers of the belly Brown at the base and green-tipped, sometimes forming a brown patch. Upper, the tail Brown very dark, green at the base; by down gray.

The bill color horn; skin peri-oftalmica naked white; brown the irises; legs Brown-Black.

Both sexes are similar.

The immature It has much less yellow and orange in the upperwing-coverts and infra-alares; the crown Green and flakes in the chest and on the sides of the neck less pronounced.

Subspecies description:

  • Pyrrhura egregia egregia

    (Sclater,PL, 1881) – The nominal.


  • Pyrrhura egregia obscura

    (Zimmer & Phelps,WH 1946) – Similar to the species nominal but with the upperparts darker green and the underparts also slightly more dark. Patch Brown in the belly less frequent and less prominent.

Habitat:

The species inhabits in humid premontane forests and dense secondary forest on the Tepuis, between 700 to 1800 m. usually in flocks of 7-25 birds.

Reproduction:

Little information on the breeding; is reproduce between March and April with fledged young people between May-June. Period of incubation: 23 Dias.

Food:

There is no information about the diet, except that birds visit Amerindian villages from July to August to feed of fruit of, for example, guavas mature.

Distribution:

Size distribution (reproduction / resident): 49.400 km2

Distribution restricted to the Tepui region in the north-eastern interior of South America. The species is known from Venezuela on Gran Sabana to the southeast of Bolívar, in the Mount Roraima and Arabopo and from the Mount Auyan-tepui and the Mt. Ptari-tepui.

Can be found in adjacent areas of the West of Guyana, for example, in the surroundings of the Camaran River and top of the Mazaruni River, the Merume mountains and Pacaraima mountains to the South of Annai.

The reports of Suriname still no confirmed. Probably are distributed in the northeast of Roraima, Brazil.

Inaccessible range and few details about his status, but apparently quite common. Large part of the range Venezuelan included in the Canaima National Park.

Small quantities exported from Guyana to end of the years eighty and subsequently bred in captivity.

Subspecies distribution:

Conservation:

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• Current category of the Red List of the UICN: Least concern.

• Population trend: Decreasing.

Justification of the population

The population size World has not been quantified, but this species is described as «quite common» (Stotz et to the., 1996).

Justification of trend

It is suspected that this species has lost 3.3-10.5% of habitat suitable within their distribution during three generations (18 years), based on a model of Amazon deforestation (Soares-Filho et to the., 2006, Bird et to the., 2011). Given the susceptibility of the species to hunt or capture, It is suspected that will decrease in <25% durante tres generaciones.

"Fiery shouldered Parakeet" in captivity:

Intelligent, relatively calm and playful. Young birds are very shy.
They are aggressive with other birds and it is very rare in captivity, with small quantities exported from Guyana at the end of the 1980s and subsequently raised in captivity.

Price per couple: 300-400 EUR.

Alternative names:

Fiery-shouldered Parakeet, Fiery shouldered Parakeet, Fiery-shoulderd Conure, Fiery-shouldered Conure (English).
Conure aile-de-feu, Perriche aile-de-feu, Perruche aile-de-feu (French).
Feuerbugsittich, Feuerbug-Sittich (German).
tiriba-de-cauda-roxa (Portuguese).
Cotorra Egregia, Perico de Cola Morada, Perico colimorado (español).
Perico de Pantepui (Venezuela).


scientific classification:

Philip Sclater
Philip Sclater

Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Genus: Pyrrhura
Scientific name: Pyrrhura egregia
Citation: (Sclater, PL, 1881)
Protonimo: conurus outstanding


Fiery shouldered Parakeet images:

Videos "Fiery shouldered Parakeet"

Fiery shouldered Parakeet (Pyrrhura egregia)


Sources:

Avibase
– Parrots of the World – Forshaw Joseph M
– Parrots A Guide to the Parrots of the World – Tony Juniper & Mike Parr
– Birdlife

Photos:

(1) – Demerara Conure By Gazelle74 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
(2) – Demerara female «at work». These little parrots love to gnaw at wood, paper and many other things By Gazelle74 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
(3) – Fiery-shouldered Parakeet (Pyrrhura egregia) by Margareta Wieser. A pair perching on a branch – HBW
(4) – Fiery-shouldered Parakeet (Pyrrhura egregia) by Andrew Emmerson. An adult bird – HBW
(5) – Fiery-shouldered Parakeet (Pyrrhura egregia) by Andrew Emmerson. An adult preening – HBW
(6) – Conurus egregius » = Pyrrhura egregius (Fiery-shouldered parakeet) by John Gerrard Keulemans [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Sounds: (Xeno-canto)

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Sulphur-winged Parakeet
Pyrrhura hoffmanni

Sulphur-winged Parakeet

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23 cms. length and 84 g. of weight.
The Sulphur-winged Parakeet (Pyrrhura hoffmanni) It, mostly, green with some individual variations in plumage.

It has a distinctive tail long and round about ear-coverts crimson red. Yellow at the top of the wings, largely hidden when the bird is at rest, but perfectly visible in flight.

The feathers of the forecrown, crown, cheeks and nape, They are green with yellow centers (the proportion of the yellow color is higher in the forecrown, lower in the back of the crown). Above predominantly green, It is the leading edges of the wings, sometimes, yellow. The lesser coverts and median are, generally, green, sometimes with some yellow in outer median coverts and feathers alula.

Yellow at the base of the outerweb of the greater coverts. Outerwebs of primaries, to a great extent, blue; primaries and secondaries with bright yellow patch, especially on the basis of innerwebs; flight feather with black tips. Under, the wings with the lesser coverts green, the majors, greenish yellow; a central portion flight feather yellowed with greyish tips.

Sulphur-winged Parakeet

Chin reddish; throat, sides neck and the top chest, green with yellow tips on feathers, which gives an overall light effect Scaled. The belly, the flanks and undertail-coverts, are green. Upper, the tail is green, below, reddish.

The bill and cere They are pink colored horn; bare periophthalmic white or yellowish white; the irises brown; legs pale grey.

Both sexes are similar, but the male player has yellow stripes on pens crown.
The Immature It has less yellow in head, the chest and wings.

  • Sound of the Sulphur-winged Parakeet.

Subspecies description:

  • Pyrrhura hoffmanni gaudens

    (Bangs, 1906) – Very similar to nominal, although feathers crown and nape They have yellower, with their ends red or red and orange (in some birds, red ends of the feathers may extend over the back, the throat and the chest). Underparts slightly darker.


  • Pyrrhura hoffmanni hoffmanni

    (Cabanis, 1861) – Nominal.

Habitat:

Video – "Sulphur-winged Parakeet" (Pyrrhura hoffmanni)

Sulphur-winged Parakeet (Pyrrhura hoffmanni)

Observed, mainly, in mountainous areas, preferring montane forests in the subtropical zone, mainly 1.000 to 2.400 meters above sea level, although views 550 meters in the region Admiral's Bay, Panama and a 3.000 metres in Costa Rica.

They appear to tolerate a considerable disturbance of habitat, including managed forests, areas and the second growth partially cleared, forests and wooded pasture shrubs. Usually seen in pairs or small flocks of 5-15 birds. You can perform altitudinal movements daily to feed, returning to the mountains to rest. Forage occurs in the canopy or smaller trees and bushes near the edge of the woods.

Reproduction:

They nest in tree hollows, including old nests woodpeckers, to 8-20 meters of land. With reproduce dry season (January June). Clutch six eggs in captivity.

Food:

Its diet includes fruit of Ficus, Croton, Leandra, Myrtus and Miconia.

Distribution and status:

Extending its range (players / residents): 18.400 km2

Confined south of Costa Rica and western Panama.

The species is found in the highlands of the southern half of Costa Rica, including the slopes of Caribbean, the mountains of the central plateau south and the two sides of the Cordillera de Talamanca, sometimes the region Cartago and Paradise and the Irazu volcano.

In western Panama They are mainly distributed in the west and center chiriqui and areas adjacent in Bull's mouths, in the highest mountains (including the chiriqui volcano and the high ridges on Boquette) and at lower elevations around, for example, of the Chiríqui Lagoon and Admiral Bay.

The easternmost Panamanian registry was found east of the central mountain range in 1868.

Some altitudinal movements (higher in the dry season). Birds are perhaps only sporadic in the extremities of their range. Apparently, It is common in the middle to high elevations of the Cordillera de Talamanca and in isolated areas, and it is believed to be quite numerous throughout the main range.

Its habitat It is now highly fragmented, though still apparently numerous, even in areas where the forest is partly cloudy. Rare in captivity.

Subspecies distribution:

  • Pyrrhura hoffmanni gaudens

    (Bangs, 1906) – West of Panama and Caribbean slope of Bull's mouths.


  • Pyrrhura hoffmanni hoffmanni

    (Cabanis, 1861) – Nominal. South of Costa Rica.

Conservation:

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• Current category of the Red List of the UICN: Least concern.

• Population trend: Stable.

• Population size : Unknown.

Rationale for the Red List category

Although this species may have a small range, it is not believed that approximates the thresholds for Vulnerable under the criteria of size range (Extension <20,000 km2 combinada con un tamaño de rango decreciente o fluctuante, extensión / calidad del hábitat o tamaño de la población y un pequeño número de lugares o fragmentación severa). La trend of the population It appears to be stable, so that the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the criteria of population trend (> 30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size It has not been quantified, but it is not believed to be close to the thresholds for Vulnerable under the criterion of population size (<10.000 individuos maduros con un declive continuo estimado> 10% in ten years or three generations or a population structure). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Justification of the population

The size of the world's population has not been quantified, but this species is described as «quite common» (Stotz et to the., 1996).

Justification of trend

They suspected that the population of Catana Cotorra is stable in absence of evidence of any decline or threatens substantial.

"Sulphur-winged Parakeet" in captivity:

Rare in captivity. Quieter than other parakeets. In Panama the export of these birds is prohibited from 1980.

Alternative names:

Hoffmann’s Conure, Hoffmann’s Parakeet, Hoffman’s Conure, Hofman’s Conure, Sulfur-winged Parakeet, Sulphur winged Parakeet, Sulphur-winged Conure, Sulphur-winged Parakeet (English).
Conure de Hoffmann, Perriche de Hoffmann, Perruche de Hoffmann (French).
Hoffmann Sittich, Hoffmannsittich, Hoffmann-Sittich (German).
Tiriba-de-asa-amarelada (Portuguese).
Cotorra Catana, Perico aliazufrado, Perico de Hofman (español).
Perico aliazufrado (Costa Rica).


scientific classification:

Jean Louis Cabanis
Jean Louis Cabanis

Its name refers to the German naturalist Karl Hoffman.

Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Genus: Pyrrhura
Scientific name: Pyrrhura hoffmanni
Citation: (Cabanis, 1861)
Protonimo: Conurus hoffmanni

Sulphur-winged Parakeet Images:



Especies del género Pyrrhura

Sources:

Avibase
– Parrots of the World – Forshaw Joseph M
– Parrots A Guide to the Parrots of the World – Tony Juniper & Mike Parr
– Birdlife

Photos:

(1) – Sulphur-winged Parakeet (Pyrrhura hoffmanni). Photographed at Savegre, in Costa Rica By Dominic Sherony [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
(2) – Parakeet HOFFMAN (Pyrrhura hoffmanni) Loro Parque, Tenerife by ZOOTOGRAFIANDO
(3) – A Sulphur-winged Parakeet at Savegre, Costa Rica By Dominic Sherony [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
(4) – Sulphur-winged Parakeet (Pyrrhura hoffmanni) at Savegre Lodge, near San Gerardo, Costa Rica By Michael Woodruff [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
(5) – Sulphur-winged Parakeet or Hoffmann’s Conure (Pyrrhura hoffmanni) by elite-pets
(6) – Conurus hoffmanni = Pyrrhura hoffmanni by Joseph Smit [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Sounds: Mike Nelson, XC107214. accessible www.xeno-canto.org/107214

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Yellow-faced Parrotlet
Forpus xanthops

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14 cm.. height. Plump appearance and short tail terminated tip. Distinguishable by the Crown, face, Yellow chest and belly, with strong wing blue patch, Flying Blue occupies almost half of the wing. Dorsally gray cafesoso, with the blue rump. The female has the blue patch on the rump and wings paler and smaller.

Sound of the Yellow-faced Parrotlet.

Habitat:

Video – "Yellow-faced Parrotlet" (Forpus xanthops)

Forpus xanthops - Yellow-faced Parrotlet - Yellow Faced Parakeet.

The Yellow-faced Parrotlet He lives in varied habitats, usually arid, forest riparian in the tropical and subtropical area, between 1000 to 1600 m, Although it has been reported to 2745 m. It is gregarious. Their diet includes cactus, In addition to fruit trees and other things. They nest in communal area, using tree hollows or sand. The breeding season is from March to April..

Distribution:

They are found in northwestern Peru., in the upper valley of the Marañón river, from the east of La Libertad to the southeast of Cajamarca and the south of Amazonas.

Conservation:

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According to the IUCN categories it is considered as Vulnerable (VU). Habitat degradation and trade are adversely affecting the population.

The ban on the capture and trade has improved the status of this species. The rate of decline was very rapid in the Decade of 1980, Although at present has been reduced and even stabilized. But, the population is still very small, with records in very few places, and as a result, according to the IUCN categories, qualified as vulnerable.

"Yellow-faced Parrotlet" in captivity

Captured for the trade of wild birds, It is estimated that 17.000 birds were captured between 1981 and 1994. The rate of mortality during capture is estimated between the 40% and the 100%. Rare and unknown in captivity until 1979-1980.

Images "Yellow-faced Parrotlet"

Alternative names:

1. Yellow-faced parrotlet (English).
2. Toui à tête jaune, Perruche-moineau à tête jaune (French).
3. Gelbmasken-Sperlingspapagei, Gelbmaskenpapagei (German).
4. Tuim-de-cabeça-amarela, Tuim, Periquito-de-cabeça-amarela (Portuguese).
5. "Catita enana de cara amarilla", Cotorrita carigualda, Periquito de Cara Amarilla (español).



Species of the genus Forpus

Sources: Parrot Book, Parrots and macaws Neotropical
Photo: Wilkipedia

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Green-cheeked Parakeet
Pyrrhura molinae


Green-cheeked Parakeet

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25 cm.. in length and 62–81 grams in weight.

The Green-cheeked Parakeet (Pyrrhura molinae) has a close frontal band and lores, you are reddish brown to blackish; crown, of color brown or brown grayish marked laterally in shades blue and green; rear area of the crown and nape with blue tips; cheeks and sometimes the supercilii area (area of the front), of color green with dye olive; ear-coverts of color grey clear to pale.

Upperparts green. The primary coverts are bluish green and the remaining are mainly green, except for some feathers scattered of color blue, yellow or orange in the leading edge of wing. Primaries blue, secondaries Green with blue near the axis; both grey below. Underwing-coverts green. feathers in the chest, the throat and the sides of the neck, brownish at base with pale purple, light grey, or yellowish opaque in the tips, giving effect squamous; central belly with brown patches of varying size (only scattered feathers some birds); sides of the belly, the thighs and bottom of the chest, green; undertail-coverts bluish green.

Upper, the tail brown, with green at the base of the center of the tail feathers (hidden under the coverts); below, the tail brown.

The bill, grey; the cere white; bare periophthalmic whitish; irises brown; legs grey.

Both sexes are similar.

Immature paler. with the irises darker and less a defendant patch brown of the belly.

Subspecies description
  • Pyrrhura molinae australis

    (Todd, 1915) – Slightly smaller the species nominal, pale margin to the throat and to the close down of the chest; Brown-colored area in the chest more extensive; less blue in the undertail-coverts.


  • Pyrrhura molinae flavoptera

    (Maijer, Herzog, Kessler, Friggens & Fjeldsa, 1998) – Similar to the nominal species, but with the bend of wing and the carpal edge, orange-red; Alula with feather blue and yellow / white mixed.


  • Pyrrhura molinae hypoxantha

    (Salvadori & Festa, 1899) – Previously listed as Pyrrhura molinae sordida. The cheeks more pale that the of the nominal species; the color red in the belly less prominent and the skirting of feathers in the throat and the chest less distinctive.


  • Pyrrhura molinae molinae

    (Massena & Souancé, 1854) – The nominal.


  • Pyrrhura molinae phoenicura

    (Schlegel, 1864) – It differs from the species nominal and of the subspecies Pyrrhura molinae australis, by having the basal half of feathers of the Centre of the tail, green. Some birds are yellow in the leading edge of wing.


  • Pyrrhura molinae restricta

    (Todd, 1947) – More blue that other subspecies, with stain blue in them lower cheeks and strong blue subfusion in the undertail-coverts. The blue tips on the feathers of the nape and zone back in the neck they form a most distinctive collar which in the nominal species.

Habitat:

The species Green-cheeked Parakeet inhabits dense forests, often low and forests with clear primary and secondary , including stripes of chaco, Savannah, deciduous forest and pantanal gallery, as well as rainforests MOSS-covered in the Eastern Andes where is reported to 2.900 meters above sea level.

In Brazil the subspecies Pyrrhura molinae hypoxantha are located mainly in deciduous forest above the 500 m.

Gregaria (at least outside the breeding season), usually in flocks of 10-20, sometimes many more.

Very often seen in rapid flight, under, fairly erratic and slightly wavy. Difficult to detect while feeding calmly in the treetops.

Reproduction:

It nests in hollow natural of trees. The laying is of 4 to 6 eggs during the month of February in the northeast of Argentina. Period of incubation: 20-24 days.

Food:

There is no information about the diet of the Green-cheeked Parakeet, but probably similar to nearby conspecifics; Forages in the treetops.

Distribution:

Size of the area of distribution (reproduction / resident): 675.000 km2

Its distribution runs from the southwest of Brazil and Northwest of Argentina to the East of Bolivia and probably South of Peru.

To this species is it can be observed in Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso from the South, in the southwest of Brazil, and in Beni, Peace, Cochabamba, Chuquisaca, Tarija and Santa Cruz, to the East of Bolivia, to the fringes of the chaco. They can be distributed through the North of Bolivia up to the end South of Peru, where a hybrid individual was captured with the Black-capped Parakeet (Pyrrhura rupicola).

Apparently absent from the land low of the pantanal and restricted in the basin of the Paraguay River isolated plots of forests of chaco in highlands on the right bank of the river.

In the Northwest of Argentina is distributed in Salta, Jujuy and with less frequency in Tucumán (a record in Catamarca is probably wrong).

They can live on the fringes of the Northwest of Paraguay but not is tested. Some local seasonal movements they can occur, birds in the higher elevations down to altitudes lower in winter (Mar-Aug).

Usually common (very common in Salta and Jujuy); Highest densities in deciduous forest; It is the most common parrot in the wooded valleys of Bolivia eastern but probably declining there due to rapid habitat clearance.

Is sold during those years eighty and was extended in captive outside of its area of distribution.

Subspecies distribution

Conservation:

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• Current category of the Red List of the UICN: Least concern.

• Population trend: Stable.

Justification of the population

The size of the world population It has not been quantified, but this species is described as «common» (Stotz et to the., 1996).

Justification of trend

Suspected that the population is stable in absence of evidence of any decline or threatens substantial.

"Green-cheeked Parakeet" in captivity:

Unknown in those birds up to the Decade of 1970, nowadays it is quite common. They have become one of the favorite birds in the pet trade, due to his sweet personality and at your disposal for fun. Son playful, loving and Smart.

They are not considered the best talkers. But, some Green-cheeked Parakeet, especially smart, they learned to speak very well, according to their owners. Even so, most say only a couple of things, And there's no guarantee that they'll ever learn to speak. They also have low and serious voice, so even if managed to talk, it would not be easy for them to say something understandable.

Price per couple (ancestral): 120-200 EUR. Hypoxantha: 150-300 EUR.

Alternative names:

Green-cheeked Parakeet, Green cheeked Parakeet, Green-cheeked Conure, Yellow-sided Conure (English).
Conure de Molina, Perriche de Molina, Perruche de Molina (French).
Molinasittich, Molina Sittich, Molina-Sittich (German).
cara-suja, tiriba-de-cara-suja (Portuguese).
Chiripepé cabeza parda, Chiripepé de cabeza gris, Cotorra de Molina, Perico Amarillo, Perico Verde, Cotorra de mejillas verdes (español).
Chiripepé cabeza parda (Argentina).
Chiripepé cabeza parda (Paraguay).
Chiripepe cabeza parda (Bolivia).
Kirki (Aymara).
Sira (Guarani).

scientific classification:

Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Genus: Pyrrhura
Scientific name: Pyrrhura molinae
Citation: (Massena & Souancé, 1854)
Protonimo: Conurus molinae

Images Green-cheeked Parakeet:

Videos "Green-cheeked Parakeet"



Especies del género Pyrrhura

Green-cheeked Parakeet (Pyrrhura molinae)


Sources:

Avibase
– Parrots of the World – Forshaw Joseph M
– Parrots A Guide to the Parrots of the World – Tony Juniper & Mike Parr
– Birdlife
– Book Parrots, Parrots and macaws
avianweb

Photos:

(1) – A Green-cheeked Parakeet perching on the index finger of a left hand By Eric Sonstroem from California, USA (Green-Cheeked ConureUploaded by snowmanradio) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
(2) – Green-cheeked Conure perching in an aviary at Kuala Lumpur Bird Park, Malaysia By Brandon Lim (Rainbow LorakeetUploaded by Snowmanradio) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
(3) – Green-cheeked Conure perching in an aviary By Brandon Lim (Rainbow LorakeetUploaded by Snowmanradio) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
(4) – A juvenile pet Yellow-sided Green-cheeked Conure (also Sordid Conure and the Yellow-sided Conure). It is a naturally occurring subspecies of the Green-cheeked Conure. The photograph shows a wing-clipped pet parrot in a bird cage. By therouxdown (Reese closeupUploaded by Snowmanradio) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
(5) – A juvenile pet Yellow-sided Green-cheeked Conure (also Sordid Conure and the Yellow-sided Conure). It is a naturally occurring subspecies of the Green-cheeked Conure. The photograph shows a wing-clipped pet parrot perching on a food bowel By therouxdown (originally posted to Flickr as Reese profile) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
(6) – Molina’s Parrot from Philip Lutley Sclater and W. H. Hudson, Argentine Ornithology: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Birds of the Argentine Republic (1888-89) in Wikimedia

Sounds: (Xeno-canto)

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Yellow-faced Parrotlet
Forpus xanthops

Yellow-faced Parrotlet

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Description:

Yellow-faced Parrotlet

14 cm.. height.

The Yellow-faced Parrotlet (Forpus xanthops) is plump appearance and a tail short ending in point. Distinguished by the crown, face, chest and belly yellow, with strong blue patch on the wing , in flight blue occupies almost half of wing . Dorsally gray cafesoso, with the rump blue. Its bill It is ocher.

The female has blue patch on the rump and wings pale smaller.

taxonomy:

Closely related to Pacific Parrotlet (Forpus coelestis); in the past it has been considered a subspecies of this, but there are clear differences in size and color. Monotypic.

Habitat:

The Yellow-faced Parrotlet It Gregaria, He lives in varied habitats, usually arid, riparian forests or gallery in the tropics and subtropics, between 1000 to 1600 m, Although it has been reported to 2745 m.

Reproduction:

Nest in communal area, using tree hollows or sand. The breeding season It is from March to April.

In captivity, They are made of 3 to 6 eggs and up to three broods are raised per year.

Food:

Their diet includes cactus, besides fruit trees. If you know that feeds on Cercidium praecox, paté flowers Bombax discolor and plum fruit Prunus domestica (Begazo 1996, F. Angulo Prato Longo a slightly. 2012).

Distribution:

Extension of the distribution (breeding/resident): 4,800 km2

The Yellow-faced Parrotlet It endemic North Peru in the Valley of the Maranon River, to the south of this country and western Amazon.

Conservation:

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• Current category of the Red List of the UICN: Vulnerable.
• Population trend: Stable.
• Population size : 350-1500 individuals.

According to the categories of UICN It is considered Vulnerable (VU). Habitat degradation and trade are adversely affecting the population.

Justification of the population

The population It is estimated in 250-999 mature individuals, according to surveys of Begazo (1996) and subsequent recovery of the small-scale. This equates to a total of 375-1,499 individuals, rounded here to 350-1,500 individuals.

The ban on the capture and trade has improved the status of this species. The rate of decline was very rapid in the Decade of 1980, Although at present has been reduced and even stabilized. But, the population is still very small, with records in very few places.

Conservation Actions Underway

Appendix II of the CITES.

– This protected legally in the Peru, but enforcement is poor.

– Catch rates have declined significantly since the ban, and trappers capture the species apparently only on request (Begazo 1996).

There are no protected areas within its range.

Conservation Actions Proposed

– Examine the population, especially in the less accessible center of its range, and between the distribution areas of the two known species of Forpus.

Monitor the population, working with local people to generate the will to preserve the species in situ (Begazo 1996).

– Study their biology and ecology throughout an annual cycle.

– controlling trade and enforce laws capture.

– Create at least one protected area within the range of the species (Angulo et al. 2008).

"Yellow-faced Parrotlet" in captivity:

captured for him wild bird trade, It is estimated that 17.000 birds were captured between 1981 and 1994. The rate of mortality during capture is estimated between the 40% and the 100%. Rare and unknown in captivity until 1979-1980.

It´s territorial, temperament quiet, active and initially shy, usually it takes in trust although this depending more on their previous experiences, age, breeding form (by hand creates it naturally).

Notes on captive breeding of Forpus xanthops

Alternative names:

Yellow faced Parrotlet, Yellow-faced Parrotlet (English).
Perruche-moineau à tête jaune, Toui à tête jaune (French).
Gelbmaskenpapagei, Gelbmasken-Sperlingspapagei (German).
Tuim-de-cabeça-amarela (Portuguese).
Catita Enana de Cara Amarilla, Cotorrita Carigualda (español).
Periquito de Cara Amarilla (Peru).



scientific classification:

Salvin Osbert
Salvin Osbert

Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Gender: Forpus
Scientific name: Forpus xanthops
Subpoena: (Salvin, 1895)
Protonimo: Psittacula xanthops

Yellow-faced Parrotlet images:


Video Carigualda Parrot



Species of the genus Forpus

Sources:

Avibase
• Parrots of the World – Forshaw Joseph M
• Parrots A Guide to the Parrots of the World – Tony Juniper & Mike Parr
• Book Parrots, Parrots and macaws Neotropical
Birdlife

Photos:

(1) – An adult male Yellow-faced Parrotlet perching on the top of its cage by Ruth Rogers [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
(2) – An adult male Yellow-faced Parrotlet photographed at the 2002 AFA convention in Tampa, Florida, USA by Rogers [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
(3) – An adult Yellow-faced Parrotlet photographed at the 2002 AFA convention in Tampa, Florida, USA by Rogers [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
(4) – An adult male Yellow-faced Parrotlet photographed at the 2002 AFA convention in Tampa, Florida, USA by Ruth Rogers [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
(5) – Forpus xanthops Marañon near Canyon Ferry, Cajamarca, Peru by Nick AthanasFlickr
(6) – John Gerrard Keulemans [Public domain] – Novelty Zoologicae, too.. 2

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Dusky-billed Parrotlet
Forpus modestus


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Description:

Dusky-billed Parrotlet

13 cm.. length and 28 g. of weight.

Chubby appearance, the Dusky-billed Parrotlet (Forpus modestus) has the forecrown, lores, cheeks and crown, emerald green, forming sometimes a visible mask; the sides and rear of the neck, the the mantle, the upper part of the back and scapulars, rather dark, of color green matte with light color of olive; lower back and rump of color blue cobalt dark: uppertail-coverts dark green. Primaries and larger covers, dark blue. Primaries with innerwebs green; Secondary of color blue dark with tips Green. Under the wings of color blue cobalt dark; flight feather grey-blue. Underparts opaque in color green dark with a light shade of olive. Upper, the tail dark green; undertail, paler.

upper jaw and cere dark gray, lower jaw clearer; Strait ring perioptalmico dark gray; Iris dark brown; legs grey.

Female all green except beige in it forecrown and front of the crown, contrasting with the Green more dark on the back of the crown.

Immature as their respective adult but paler.

Subspecies description:

  • Forpus modestus modestus

    (Cabanis, 1849) – The nominal.


  • Forpus modestus sclateri

    (Gray,GR, 1859) – Similar to the nominal species but from a color green more pale, more yellowish below, male with blue pale in rump and wings ; the face Green Emerald bright.

Habitat:

They inhabit in tropical forest lowlands in clear, margins, coastal growth, forests and marshes, secondary habitats and sheets, mainly in lowlands (150-250 metres in Venezuela, to 500 metres in Colombia), but spreading in sub-tropical forests to 1,500-1, 800 m in the Eastern Andes of Ecuador.

Gregarious; Outside the breeding season, sometimes in flocks of 100 or more individuals

Reproduction:

It nests in hollows and dead trees. breeding season of registered in the month of July in Peru.

Food:

The diet comprises seeds (for example, Cecropia miparia), berries, egg yolks, etc. It takes the banks along with other parrots mineral soil.

Distribution:

Size distribution (reproduction / resident): 2.840.000 km2

Discontinuous distribution. Since the Guianas to the North of Bolivia. Although according to reports in Guyana and French Guiana not there are records (at least not recently). Be distributed by the Basin Amazon East of Brazil in Amapá, Maranhão and For, and in the Basin Amazon West from the high of the Black river to the North of Mato Grosso; in Venezuela, to the South of the Orinoco, on bass Caura River and Cuyuni River (a record of Carabobo; in the North, is apparently wrong); In East Colombia to the South from the East end of the Guainia (about him Black river) until Caquetá to the East of Ecuador and East of Peru to the South and to the North of Bolivia at least Beni.

Reasonably frequent in the West of its range (the Forpus most common in the range in Ecuador and Colombia) but scarcer eastward, with few records in Venezuela and Guyanas.

Evidence of decline in the Eastern Amazonia (about Bethlehem) and possible increase in Colombia, perhaps linked to reduction of dense forests.

Rare in captivity.

Subspecies distribution:

  • Forpus modestus modestus

    (Cabanis, 1849) – The nominal.


  • Forpus modestus sclateri

    (Gray,GR, 1859) – Southeast of Colombia to the North of Bolivia and Brazilian Amazon.

Conservation:

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• Red List Category: Least concern
• Population trend: Stable

Justification of the population:

The size of the world population Dusky-billed Parrotlet It has not been quantified, but this species is described as «quite common» (Stotz et to the., 1996).

Justification of trend:

It is suspected that this species has lost 11,6-12,6% of habitat within its distribution in three generations (12 years) based on a model of Amazon deforestation (Soares-Filho et to the., 2006, Bird et to the., 2011).

Given the susceptibility of the species to hunt or capture, It is suspected that it will fall in <25% durante tres generaciones.

"Dusky-billed Parrotlet" in captivity:

In captive not all known, However, this species is probably similar to other parakeet species – quite quiet, best with a partner, although, they can be aggressive with other groups of parrots. It has a tendency to obesity.
You can learn to speak, usually up to around. 15 words. Males are generally more loquacious than females. They can also learn to whistle numerous tunes and perform some tricks..

This Parrot is very small, they do not occupy much space, It makes it an ideal pet for people living in apartments, residences, or anywhere else than in small size, do not require a large cage and its maintenance is simple.

Alternative names:

Dusky-billed Parrotlet, Dusky billed Parrotlet, Sclater’s Parrotlet (English).
Toui de Sclater (French).
Schwarzschnabel-Sperlingspapagei (German).
tuim-de-bico-escuro (Portuguese).
Catita Enana Oscura, Cotorrita de Sclater, Periquito Piquinegro (español).
Periquito Piquinegro (Colombia).
Periquito de Pico Oscuro (Peru).
Periquito Pico Oscuro (Venezuela).


scientific classification:

Jean Louis Cabanis
Jean Louis Cabanis

Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Genus: Forpus
Scientific name: Forpus modestus
Citation: (Cabanis, 1849)
Protonimo: Psittacula Sclateri


Images Dusky-billed Parrotlet:

Videos of the "Dusky-billed Parrotlet"



Species of the genus Forpus

Dusky-billed Parrotlet (Forpus modestus)


Sources:

Avibase
– Parrots of the World – Forshaw Joseph M
– Parrots A Guide to the Parrots of the World – Tony Juniper & Mike Parr
– Birdlife

Photos:

(1) – Brazil – Crystal River (Amazonia)
(2) – Periquito de pico oscuro en Alta Floresta – MT – Brasil By Hector Bottai (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
(3) – Periquito de pico oscuro en Alta Floresta – MT – Brasil By Hector Bottai (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
(4) – Forpus modestus by Gunther EichhornFlickr
(5) – Dusky Billed Parrotlets at the end of the branch with Dusky Headed Parrots by Vince SmithFlickr
(6) – Psittacula sclateri = Forpus modestus, Dusky-billed Parrotlet by John Gerrard Keulemans [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Sounds: (Xeno-canto)

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Maroon-tailed Parakeet
Pyrrhura melanura


Maroon-tailed Parakeet

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Anatomy-parrots

Description:

26-28 cm.. height.

The Maroon-tailed Parakeet (Pyrrhura melanura) is distinguishable mainly by the tail and wings blackish (visible in flight); has the lores, the forecrown, the crown and the rear area of the neck, brownish, with paler reddish brown tips on the crown, forming altogether a speckled pattern; cheeks, ear-coverts and area behind the eyes, green; Brown in the shadows at the back of the crown Green in the nape.

Upperparts Green with tinge of olive in some feathers. Primary coverts Red with yellow tips; Front edge of the wing , red; upperwing-coverts of color green with dye olive. Primaries Dark greenish blue with dark tips. Underwing-coverts green; underside of flight feather blackish. Throat and feathers of the upper part of the chest, Green or greyish green with pale margins, giving a scaly striking effect; pale edges that become less clear on the sides of the neck; the belly and undertail-coverts Green with dye olive dark. Upper, the tail dark brown with green outer feathers; undertail, the tail shiny black.

Bill pale grey; bare periophthalmic naked, whitish: irises dark brown; legs grey.

Both sexes similar. The immature has less red (greener) in the primary coverts.

Subspecies description

Subspecies description
  • Pyrrhura melanura berlepschi

    (Salvadori, 1891) – Similar to the Pyrrhura melanura souancei, but with even broader and paler margins on the breast feathers (Some birds of Ecuador with almost entirely white breasts), less red on the front edge of the wing and more pronounced brown patch in the belly. Cheeks dyed with color olive, Red uniform at the edge of the carpus; abdomen more uniform brown/red color.

  • Pyrrhura melanura chapmani

    (Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1940) – With suspiciously in the chest more width, No yellow in the wing ; yellowish in the area of the ear and the green of the tail darker.

  • Pyrrhura melanura melanura

    (Spix, 1824) – Nominal.

  • Pyrrhura melanura pacifica

    (Chapman, 1915) – More dark, No yellow in the wing , grey around the eye, tail more short and reddish.

  • Pyrrhura melanura souancei

    (Verreaux,J, 1858) – With the edge top of the wing Red and not yellow; Green in the base of the tail more extensive and chest with scaled a little more width.

Habitat:

Maroon-tailed Parakeet

The Maroon-tailed Parakeet It occupies the temperate tropical formations, including forests of várzea, forests of land low and pre-montanos rainforests and forests cloud, often in areas partially cleared and edges of secondary forests; 150 - 300m in Venezuela (nominal), to 3,200 m in the slopes Andean Eastern (souancei), 1.600-2.800m on the slope of the Andes central (chapmani), at 1,700 m in Nariño (Pacifica), at 1500m (berlepschi). Usually in flocks of 6-12 individuals, staying in them cups of them trees to rest but moving is toward the branches more low for forage.

Reproduction:

Little information about breeding, observed during the months of April-June, headers of the Napo River, Ecuador. Copulation observed in January (Colombia). Clutch four eggs in captivity.

Food:

Few details about the diet, with foods known, including fruits of Miconia tkeaezans (Top of the Magdalena valley). Fagara tachuelo and tree bark (Amazonia).

Distribution:

Size of the area of distribution (reproduction / resident): 1.510.000 km2

The distribution of the Maroon-tailed Parakeet is discontinuous. Northwest of South America in the Western Amazon basin, southern portion of the the Orinoco basin and slope of the peaceful of the Andes, in the southwest of Colombia and West Ecuador.

In Venezuela the species is found in the Centre of the South of Bolívar along the upper Western Amazon basin of Brazil between the rivers Negro and Solimões. They are also distributed in Andes Central of Colombia, at the top of the Magdalena valley, from the South of Tolima until Huila and separated to the East from the Andes (in lowlands and up to 500 m in foothills) Since the Macarena mountains, southward through eastern lowlands Ecuador and Northeast and East of Peru.

A separate population is distributed to the West of the Andes, in the Northwest of the South of Ecuador, to the North of The rivers, with a single log in nose, to the southwest of Colombia.

Mainly resident Although the apparent absence during some seasons in some parts of Colombia suggests regular movements.

Unevenly distributed, in some areas very common, being the Parrot more numerous in some parts of the range such as high Magdalena valley and perhaps parts of Esmeraldas in the Northwest of Ecuador.

Alleged decrease in some areas (for example, Pacific slope of Ecuador) due to loss of habitat. Little known in the East of Peru. Not a locally popular cage bird if it has been traded internationally in significant numbers in late 1980 and fairly well known in captivity outside of its area of distribution.

Subspecies distribution

Subspecies distribution
  • Pyrrhura melanura berlepschi

    (Salvadori, 1891) – Valley of Huallaga, is of Peru and Southeast of Ecuador on Cutucú mountain range. A specimen with characteristics of this species was observed at the head of the Magdalena valley suggesting their distribution in Colombia.

  • Pyrrhura melanura chapmani

    (Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1940) – Hillside East of the top of the Magdalena valley in the center of the Andes from the South of Tolima until Huila at altitudes of 1600-2, 800 m

  • Pyrrhura melanura melanura

    (Spix, 1824) – Nominal.

  • Pyrrhura melanura pacifica

    (Chapman, 1915) – Northwest of Ecuador and southwest of Colombia.

  • Pyrrhura melanura souancei

    (Verreaux,J, 1858) – It is from Colombia since the Sierra de la Macarena Southwest, until Putumayo through the East of Ecuador, possibly up to the north end of Peru. Probably bordered on the eastern slopes of the Andes and mostly replaced by the nominal species in lowlands.

Conservation:


minor concern


• Current category of the Red List of the UICN: Least concern.

• Population trend: Decreasing.

Justification of the population

The population size world has not been quantified, but this species is described as «quite common» (Stotz et to the., 1996).

Justification of trend

This species is suspected that he has been able to lose 6,95 to 7,1% of a habitat within its distribution over three generations (18 years) based on a deforestation model of the Amazon (Soares-Filho et to the., 2006, Bird et to the. 2011). Given the susceptibility of the species to the cazay and/or the capture, It is suspected that will decrease in <25% durante tres generaciones.

"Maroon-tailed Parakeet" in captivity:

Ave shy and quiet, get used to people over time. Colonies in large birdcages are possible.

Alternative names:

Maroon-tailed Parakeet, Magdalena Parakeet, Maroon tailed Parakeet, Maroon-tailed Conure, Black-tailed Conure (English).
Conure de Souancé, Perriche de Souancé, Perruche de Souancé (French).
Braunschwanzsittich, Braunschwanz-Sittich (German).
tiriba-fura-mata (Portuguese).
Cotorra Colinegra, Perico de Cola Negra, Periquito Colirrojo (español).
Periquito Colirrojo (Colombia).
Periquito Colirrojo (Peru).
Perico Cola Negra (Venezuela).


scientific classification:


Johann Baptist von Spix
Johann Baptist von Spix

Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Genus: Pyrrhura
Scientific name: Pyrrhura melanura
Citation: (von Spix, 1824)
Protonimo: Aratinga melanurus

Images "Maroon-tailed Parakeet"

Videos "Maroon-tailed Parakeet"

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"Black tail parakeet" (Pyrrhura melanura)


Sources:

Avibase
– Parrots of the World – Forshaw Joseph M
– Parrots A Guide to the Parrots of the World – Tony Juniper & Mike Parr
Birdlife

Photos:

(1) – pyrrhura.cz.
(2) – Maroon-tailed parakeet pyrrhura berlepschi = berlepschi, Maroon-tailed Parakeet ssp. by John Gerrard Keulemans [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Sounds: (Xeno-canto)