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Overview
Blue-crowned Parakeet: Medium-sized green parakeet with a blue head and red-orange highlights in long tail. White, feathless eye ring. The bill is bicolored with upper mandible pinkish and lower mandible is black (subspecies in northeastern Brazil has an all-pink bill). The legs and feet are pink.
Range and Habitat
Blue-crowned Parakeet: In its native range occurs in several disjunct populations in South America, one in the north of Columbia and Venezuela, another in eastern Brazil, and another stretching from Bolivia through Argentina. Small numbers of escaped captive birds are now established in Los Angeles, California and Florida. Uses dry open forests and grasslands, but in some portions of its range also uses semi-desert habitats.
Topo Map:
Perching-like Body
Voice Text
"creeah creeah"
Interesting Facts
A group of parakeets is collectively known as a "chatter" and a "flock" of parakeets.
Bird Term Glossary
Author
Gary Owen Dick
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