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Yellow-crowned parakeet near Lake Matheson, New Zealand. Yellow-crowned parakeets are 23 cm long and primarily bright green. They have a red band fronting their eponymous golden crown. Their wings, when spread in flight, are bluish purple. Their eyes are either orange or red and their bill is grey. The males of this species are larger than the ...
33 cm (13 in) long, mostly green, white forehead and lores, yellow crown and ear coverts, bare white eye rings. Yellow chin and shoulders. Some red and dark blue in the wing feathers. [66] The Netherlands Antilles, Venezuela [67] Blue-fronted amazon (Amazona aestiva) 38 cm (15 in) long, mostly green, blue forehead and yellow on the face.
The three species on mainland New Zealand are the yellow-crowned parakeet (Cyanoramphus auriceps), the red-crowned parakeet, or red-fronted parakeet (C. novaezelandiae), and the critically endangered Malherbe's parakeet or orange-fronted parakeet (C. malherbi – not to be confused with Eupsittula canicularis a popular aviary bird known as the ...
Green-cheeked parakeet: P. molinae (Massena and de Souancé, 1854) LC: Painted parakeet: P. picta (Müller, 1776) LC: Northeast South America, north of the Amazon river and east of the Venezuela/Colombia border Sinú parakeet: P. subandina (Todd, 1917) CR: Sinú Valley in northern Colombia near (but not bordering) the Gulf of Darién: Azuero ...
The yellow-crowned amazon is found in the Amazon basin and Guianas, with additional populations in northwestern South America and Panama. It has been introduced to Grand Cayman. It is a bird of tropical forests (both humid and dry), woodlands, mangroves, and savannas and may also be found on cultivated land and suburban areas.
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Norfolk parakeet. Cyanoramphus cookii Gray, 1859: Norfolk Island, Australia Size: Habitat: Diet: EN Antipodes parakeet. Cyanoramphus unicolor (Lear, 1831) Antipodes Islands, New Zealand Size: Habitat: Diet: VU Yellow-crowned parakeet. Cyanoramphus auriceps (Kuhl, 1820) New Zealand Size: Habitat: Diet: NT Malherbe's parakeet or orange-fronted ...
Malherbe's parakeet is a medium size parrot, approximately 20 centimetres long. Its body is primarily a bright blue-green, with azure blue primary covert and leading edge feathers on its wings. [10] It has a distinctive (and diagnostic) orange frontal band on its yellow crown, but this is absent in juvenile birds, which have fully green heads.