Cobalt-winged parakeet

The cobalt-winged parakeet (Brotogeris cyanoptera) is a species of bird in the family Psittacidae, the true parrots. It is found in the eastern Andean foothills, the far western Amazonian regions in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia; and Brazil, in the Amazon Basin states of Amazonas, Acre, and Rondonia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical, moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Cobalt-winged parakeet
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Genus: Brotogeris
Species:
B. cyanoptera
Binomial name
Brotogeris cyanoptera
(Salvadori, 1891)

Distribution

The range of the cobalt-winged parakeet is in the extreme western Amazon Basin in Brazil's states of Amazonas, Acre, and Rondônia, part of the North Region; also from north to south, southernmost Venezuela, eastern Colombia-Ecuador-Peru, and northern and central Bolivia, and in Bolivia within the tributary rivers to the Madeira River flowing northeast to the Amazon River. One small disjunct, localized population occurs in Bolivia's northeast border region near the Guaporé River headwaters.

Cobalt-winged parakeets at a clay lick along the Napo River, Ecuador

References
  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Cobalt-winged Parakeet: Brotogeris cyanoptera". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22685983A93095085. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22685983A93095085.en. Retrieved 30 December 2020.



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