Blue-crowned Parakeet

Aratinga acuticaudataOrder: PSITTACIFORMESFamily: Parakeets and Parrots (Psittacidae)

Overview

Blue-crowned Parakeet: Medium-sized parakeet with blue head and red-orange highlights in long tail. Bill is bicolored with upper mandible pinkish and lower mandible black (subspecies in northeastern Brazil has an all-pink bill). Sexes similar. Blue on head of juvenile is restricted to the forehead.

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 Florida. Uses dry open forests and grasslands, but in some portions of its range also uses semi-desert habitats.

Listen:

Voice Text

loud "creeah creeah"

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Blue-crowned Parakeet

● Song: loud "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 2 white eggs in tree cavities, probably from March to July. Female apparently incubates while male brings her food.

● Similar species: Blue-crowned Parakeet:

Flight Pattern

Fast direct flight with rapid wingbeats.

● 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 Florida. Uses dry open forests and grasslands, but in some portions of its range also uses semi-desert habitats.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationCommon

^MigrationNonmigratory

^Weight Ounces

Field Guide to Birds of Central and South America