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Rusty-faced Parrot, Manizales
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Genus: Hapalopsittaca | Species: amazonina
Size:
26cm (10 in)
Weight:
97-115g (3.4-4 oz)
Subspecies including nominate:
three: H.a. amazonina, H.a.
Colour Adult:
H.a. amazonina: Both adults forehead orange/red turning to brown/red on forecrown; pale yellow lores; chin and area before cheeks orange/red; longer feathers of ear coverts and area behind cheeks olive in colour, shafts streaked pale yellow; olive throat and breast; red bend of wing to lesser wing coverts; carpal edge and lesser wing coverts soft red; tail brown/red tipped with purple/blue. Bill horn in colour with blue/grey at base of upper mandible. Eye green/yellow.
H.a. theresae: Both adults forehead, chin and area before cheeks darker than in amazonina; ear coverts and area behind cheeks darker than in amazonina; throat and upper breast rusty olive/brown.
H.a. velezi: Both adults nape to area behind neck yellow/olive; green mantle; pale blue and pink carpal edge.
Colour Juvenile:
As in adults but duller; with duller red and yellow markings on head; yellow on feather shafts on ear coverts and area behind cheeks minimal or absent; tail darker.
Call:
Calls in flight are said to be loud and metallic, and when perched metallic and disyllabic.
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Content Sources:
CITES
BirdLife International
Cornell Lab of Ornithology/Birds of the World
Parrots: A Guide to Parrots of the World, Juniper and Parr, 1998
ML Media Collection Catalogue 68623, Rusty-faced Parrot Hapalopsitta amazonina, Schwartz, Paul, Tachira, Venezuela, Apr. 23 1970, Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Site
Parrots: Status Survey and Conservation Plan 2000-2004, Snyder, McGowan, Gilardi and Grajal, 2000.
Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006. 2010 edition
Rusty-faced Parrot, Manizales
© Robert Scanlon | www.pbase.com/rsscanlon
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Although the population of this species is small it is larger than previously thought. It consists of scattered groups that are going through continued declines.Academic Research
Related publications: Hapalopsittaca amazoninaSpecies Care
Captive Status:
Not found in aviculture.
Longevity:
Not recorded.
Housing:
Not recorded.
Diet:
Not recorded.
Enrichment:
Not recorded.
Nest Box Size:
Not recorded.
Clutch Size:
Not recorded.
Incubation Time:
Not recorded.
Fledging Age:
Not recorded.
Hatch Weight:
Not recorded.
Peak Weight:
Not recorded.
Weaning Weight:
Not recorded.
Rusty-faced Parrot, Manizales
© Robert Scanlon | www.pbase.com/rsscanlon
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Although the population of this species is small it is larger than previously thought. It consists of scattered groups that are going through continued declines.Academic Research
Related publications: Hapalopsittaca amazoninaSpecies Wild Status
World Population:
3500-15,000
IUCN Red List Status:
Near Threatened
CITES Listing:
Appendix II
Threat Summary:
A BirdLife “restricted-range” species. Generally rare throughout its range; the one site where it was recorded as common in Colombia has long since been deforested, and total populations of all three races are likely to be low. Forest clearance in Venezuela is ongoing and rapid and two main protected areas where it occurs, El Tamá and Sierra Nevada National Parks, are threatened by logging.
Range:
H.a. amazonina: W Venezuela and slopes of Cordillera Oriental in W Colombia.
H.a. theresae: W Venezuela from N Tachira north to C Trujillo.
H.a. velezi: W Colombia, along western slope of Cordillera Central and possibly on eastern slope.
Habitat:
Found in wet epiphyte-rich cloud forest, and along forest edge; in temperate zone, sometimes descending to upper subtropical forest; also elfin forest and taller stands with broken canopy. Up to 3500m (11,480 ft).
Wild Diet:
Forage for Phytolacca berries and fruits of Clusia and mistletoe.
Ecology and Behaviour:
Mainly forage in canopy. Social, found in pairs or flocks of up to 25 individuals.
Clutch and Egg Size:
Not recorded.
Breeding Season:
Not recorded.
Related Links:
Article: Historical reproductive record of the Rusty-faced Parrot
Rusty-faced Parrot, Manizales
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Although the population of this species is small it is larger than previously thought. It consists of scattered groups that are going through continued declines.Academic Research
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