Sulphur-breasted parakeet
Sulphur-breasted parakeet | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Psittaciformes |
Family: | Psittacidae |
Genus: | Aratinga |
Species: | A. maculata
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Binomial name | |
Aratinga maculata (Statius Müller, 1776)
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Synonyms | |
Aratinga pintoi Silveira, de Lima & Höfling, 2005 |
The sulphur-breasted parakeet (Aratinga maculata), or sulphur-breasted conure
Taxonomy and systematics
The sulphur-breasted parakeet was originally described as Psittacus maculatus.
The sulphur-breasted parakeet is
Description
The sulphur-breasted parakeet is about 30 cm (12 in) long and weighs about 110 g (3.9 oz). The sexes are alike. The adults' crown and mantle are pale greenish yellow. Their wing coverts range from yellow through green to deep blue; the flight feathers are also deep blue on their upper side. Their tail's upper side is mostly green, with blue tips on the inner feathers and progressively more blue outwards to the entirely blue outermost pair. Their head below the crown and their underparts are mostly yellow, with orange through the eye and on small areas of the belly and flanks. The undersides of their flight feathers and tail are blackish gray. Their iris is dark gray surrounded by bare bluish gray skin, their bill black, and their legs and feet dark brownish. Juveniles have a green head, mantle, and wing coverts. The species closely resembles the sun parakeet but has less orange and more green.[10][11]
Distribution and habitat
The sulphur-breasted parakeet has two disjunct ranges. It is found in Brazil's Pará state north of the lower Amazon River between the Maicuru and Paru rivers, and also in Suriname's Sipaliwini Savanna.[10][12] It probably also occurs in the Brazilian state of Amapá but has not been confirmed there.[13]
The sulphur-breasted parakeet inhabits open to semi-open landscapes, typically those with sandy soils and scattered trees and bushes. It also occurs in gallery forest, and occasionally in orchards.[10][11] In elevation it ranges as high as 1,400 m (4,600 ft).[1]
Behavior
Movement
The sulphur-breasted parakeet is generally a year-round resident but does make some local movements.[10]
Feeding
The sulphur-breasted parakeet typically forages singly and also in groups of up to about 10 individuals. It feeds on fruit, seeds, and flowers.[10]
Breeding
The sulphur-breasted parakeet nests in tree cavities. Active nests have been found in April and September; both were in dead Hymenaea trees and one of them contained a single egg. Nothing else is known about the species' breeding biology.[10]
Vocalization
The sulphur-breasted parakeet's call has been described as a "high-pitched shrill screech of 2–3 notes, 'screek screek screek' "[10], and also as a "sharp, very high shrieking, like 'eeuwt-uht-uht' "[11].
Status
The
References
- ^ . Retrieved 5 April 2023.
- ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
- ^ "Sulphur-breasted conure (Aratinga maculata)". World Parrot Trust. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
- ^ a b Gill, F.; Donsker, D.; Rasmussen, P., eds. (January 2023). "Parrots, cockatoos". IOC World Bird List. v 13.1. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
- ^ Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claramunt, A. Jaramillo, D. F. Lane, J. F. Pacheco, M. B. Robbins, F. G. Stiles, and K. J. Zimmer. 30 January 2023. Species Lists of Birds for South American Countries and Territories. https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCCountryLists.htm retrieved January 30, 2023
- ^ The Auk122: 292-305
- ^ Statius Müller, P.L. (1789). Des Ritters Carl von Linné Königlich Schwedischen Leibarztes &c. &c. vollständigen Natursystems Supplements- und Register-Band über alle sechs Theile oder Classen des Thierreichs. Mit einer ausführlichen Erklärung. Nebst drey Kupfertafeln (in German). Nürnberg: Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe. p. 74.
- ^ Nemésio, A. & C. Rasmussen (2009). The rediscovery of Buffon's "Guarouba" or "Perriche jaune": two senior synonyms of Aratinga pintoi Silveira, Lima, & Höfling, 2005 (Aves: Psittaciformes) (pdf). Zootaxa 2013: 1–16.
- ^ Zimberlin, D. et al. 2005. Proposal (#197) to South American Classification Committee: Recognize Aratinga pintoi as a valid species Archived 2010-06-28 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Fjeldså, J., G. M. Kirwan, P. F. D. Boesman, and C. J. Sharpe (2020). Sulphur-breasted Parakeet (Aratinga maculata), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.subpar1.01 retrieved April 5, 2023
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-530155-7.
- S2CID 85935208.
- ^ Aleixo, A.; Poletto, F.; Cunha Lima, M.F.; Castro, M.; Portes, E.; Miranda, L.S. (2011). "Notes on the vertebrates of northern Pará, Brazil: A forgotten part of the Guianan Region, II. Avifauna". Bol. Mus. Para. Emílio Goeldi. Cienc. Nat. 6 (1): 11–65.
External links
- Photos of Sun Parakeet (Aratinga solstitialis). WikiAves (photographs). 2011. Retrieved 31 January 2011.