Blue-crowned Parakeet
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.
● Song:
"creeah creeah"
● Foraging & Feeding:
Blue-crowned Parakeet: Travels in groups of 2 to 200 depending on season and abundance of food. May travel long distances between roosts and feeding areas. Flies fairly low over grasslands and open areas in search of seeds and fruit. Feeds in trees and on the ground.
● Breeding & nesting:
Blue-crowned Parakeet: Little known. Lays two white eggs in tree cavities, probably from March to July. Female apparently incubates while male brings her food.
● Similar species:
Blue-crowned Parakeet: Dusky-headed Parakeet has gray head and black bill, Black-hooded Parakeet has black head and bill, blue wash on throat and chest, and blue on tips of tail feathers and flight feathers. Mitred Parakeet has dull yellow bill, and red forehead with red scattered on head and neck.
● Range & 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.