Madeira Conure
Also known as:
Madeira Parakeet
Also known as:
Madeira Parakeet
DID YOU KNOW?
The Madeira Conure was once conspecific with Santarem Conure (Pyrrhura amazonum).
Size:
22 cm (8.6 in)
Weight:
85 g (3 oz)
Subspecies including nominate:
one
Colour Adult:
Both adults buff/white ear coverts; cream/buff upper breast, with dark brown feather shafts, and lower breast yellow/buff with feather shafts dark green; green bend of wing. Beak dark brown/grey. Eye ring bare and brown with yellow markings. Eye brown.
Colour Juvenile:
Not recorded.
Call:
Calls are like that of the Painted Conure: in flight coarse and forceful notes.
More Information:
Content Sources:
Wikipedia
BirdLife International
Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006. 2010 edition
Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.
Lexicon of Parrots, Thomas Arndt.
Captive Status:
Virtually unknown.
Longevity:
Probably 13-15 yrs.
Housing:
Aviary or suspended enclosure, minimum length 2 m (6.5 ft).
Diet:
Probably fruits such as: apple, pear, banana, orange, cactus fruits, pomegranate, forming about 30 percent of diet; vegetables such as: carrot, celery, green beans and peas in the pod; fresh corn; green leaves such as: Swiss chard, lettuce, sowthistle, dandelion, chickweed; spray millet; small seed mix such as: canary, millet, and smaller amounts of oats, buckwheat, safflower and a little hemp; soaked and sprouted sunflower seed; cooked beans and pulses, boiled maize and complete pellet.
Enrichment:
Likely avid chewers, so provide bird safe, unsprayed fir, pine, willow and flowering branches, wooden toys, heat sterilized pine cones, vegetable tanned leather toys; also puzzle/foraging toys, swings, ropes and ladders. Also like other Pyrrhura sp. the Madeira conure probably would enjoy bathing so provide overhead misters or shallow bathing bowls.
Nest Box Size:
Nest log.
Clutch Size:
Probably 4-8.
Fledging Age:
Probably 40-51 days.
Hatch Weight:
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Peak Weight:
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Weaning Weight:
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World Population:
Unknown, decreasing.
IUCN Red List Status:
Least Concern
CITES Listing:
Appendix II
As conspecific with P. picta.
Threat Summary:
Is threatened by deforestation in the Amazon basin as land is cleared for cattle ranching and soy production. The forest in the species’ range has decreased by 9% over the past three generations. Tree cover loss has been increasing since 2016 at a rate of 11% over three generations. As the species also occurs in savanna habitat, the rate of population decline may be lower than deforestation rates suggest. The impact of trapping has not been quantified. Based on available evidence, population declines are unlikely to exceed 20% over three generations, but an accurate estimate is required.
Range:
Found south of the Amazon/Solimoes in SC Brazil and northernmost Bolivia, in the Madeiran drainage east to the Tapajos and the Rio Tele Pires in the south.
Habitat:
Found up to 300 m (984 ft) in riverine terra firme and varzea forest; in south, stunted forest with large bamboo clumps along waterways; also forest margins and in nearby clearings with remnant forest.
Wild Diet:
Probably fruits, berries, flowers, seeds and vegetable matter in the form of leaves and buds, as well as insects and their larvae.
Ecology and Behaviour:
Are resident; usually seen in small flocks of up to 10-15 birds. Flight is erratic and unpredictable; birds are conspicuous and noisy flitting about in or above the forest canopy.
Clutch and Egg Size:
Probably 4-8 eggs.
Breeding Season:
Probably July-December.
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