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Orange-chinned Parakeet (Brotogeris jugularis), family Psittacidae, order Psittaciformes, Colombia

It's scientific name is: Brotogeris jugularis.

PSITTACIFORMES / Psittacidae / Brotogeris

Description 🪶:

The orange-chinned parakeet is 18 to 19 cm (7.1 to 7.5 in) long and weighs between 53 and 65 g (1.9 and 2.3 oz). Adults of the nominate subspecies have a bright green head with a bluish wash on the crown, a white eye ring, an orange chin, and a pale bill. The chin patch is often hard to see. Their upperparts and tail are bluish green with brown wing coverts that show as "shoulders" when perched. Their underparts are mostly bright green with bluish vent and thighs. Their underwing coverts are yellow. Immature birds are similar to adults. Subspecies B. j. exsul has entirely green underparts and a smaller and paler orange chin patch, darker "shoulders", and more olive in the mantle than the nominate.

Behavior 🦜:

The orange-chinned parakeet is generally sedentary, but at least in El Salvador wanders locally after the breeding season. It is usually seen in pairs or small flocks.

The orange-chinned parakeet often forages with the larger orange-fronted parakeet (Eupsittula canicularis). It feeds on a wide variety of foods, primarily fruits and seeds but also flowers, herbs, nectar, insects, and algae. It can damage cultivated fruit. Like many other parrots, it feeds on mineral-rich soil.

The orange-chinned parakeet's breeding season spans from January to April. It nests in an old woodpecker hole, a natural cavity, or in a hole it excavates in an arboreal termite nest. Communal nesting in a large rotten snag has been observed. The typical clutch size is four to seven eggs. In captivity the incubation period is about 21 to 26 days and fledging occurs about two to three weeks after hatch.

The orange-chinned parakeet's common calls are "a high-pitched “klee”, shrill “chree” or bisyllabic “chree-chree”" that are given when perched or in flight. It also makes "a fast chattering series “cra-cra-cra-cra-cra”." It makes "a near constant, shrill, harsh chatter."

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Distribution and Habitat 🗺

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Orange-cheeked Parrots (Pyrilia barrabandi) and Cobalt-winged Parakeets (Brotogeris cyanoptera), both in the family Psittacidae, order Psittaciformes, at the clay lick along the Napo River in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador

Many species of parrot visit clay licks, clay outcroppings like this, to supplement their diet with sodium and other minerals, which they do not get in sufficient quantities in their diet of fruits and other plant materials.

Orange-chinned Parakeets (Brotogeris jugularis), family Psittacidae, order Psittaciformes, Costa Rica