Orange-fronted Parakeet

A medium-sized parakeet, green above and yellow-green below, with an orange forehead. The top of the head is bright blue and it has an orange eye ring (faded in the museum specimen above). Length: 23-25 cm.; weight: 68-80 g. Audio (M. Oberle). Native to the lowlands of western Mexico and Central America. Introduced to Puerto Rico, but locally common chiefly on the northeastern coast. Las Cabezas de San Juan Nature Reserve and the Colinas del Yunque urbanization on PR 191 currently are regular locations to find this species.

TAXONOMY: PSITTACIFORMES; PSITTACIDAE; Arinae. Also called Orange-fronted Conure.

Photo: M. Oberle*

References

Bradbury, J. W., K. A. Cortopassi, and J. R. Clemmons. 2001. Geographical variation in the contact calls of Orange-fronted Parakeets. Auk 118(4):958-972.

Camacho Rodrφguez, M., J. Chabert Llompart, and M. L≤pez Flores. 1999. Guφa para la identificaci≤n de las aves ex≤ticas establecidas en Puerto Rico. Depto. de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales, San Juan, PR.

del Hoyo, J., A. Elliott, and J. Sargatal, eds. 1998. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 4. Sandgrouse to cuckoos. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

Juniper, T. and M. Parr. 1998. Parrots: A guide to parrots of the world. Yale Univ. Press.

Pérez-Rivera, R. A. 1992. Feral exotic psittaciformes from Puerto Rico. Ornitología Caribeña 3:30-34.

Raffaele, H.A. 1989. A guide to the birds of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Princeton.

Raffaele, H.A. 1989. Una guía a las aves de Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes. Publishing Resources, Inc., Santurce, PR.

Raffaele, H.A. and C. B. Kepler. 1992. Earliest records of the recently introduced avifauna of Puerto Rico. Ornitología Caribeña 3:20-29.

Raffaele, H.A., J.W. Wiley, O.H. Garrido, A.R. Keith, and J.I. Raffaele. 1998. Guide to the birds of the West Indies. Princeton.

http://www.arndt-verlag.com/conures.html

Orange-fronted Parakeet, Spanish text

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