Family: Psittacidae

Brotogeris chiriri;
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet;
Periquito-de-encontro-amarelo.

Psittacus chiriri VIEILLOT 1817

Distributed in Central and E Brasil and neighbouring countries (Pinto 1938, p. 201).

See also:
Hellmayr 1929, p. 448
Pinto and Camargo 1961, p. 221
Clements 2007 (subspecies ?!)


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Yellow-chevroned Parakeet (Brotogeris chiriri)
13/01/2010; Serra de Baturité, Ceará, Brazil. 300 mm f2.8 lens.

Figure 1. The Yellow-chevroned Parakeet is rather common in Serra de Baturité, where I saw it in semi-open environments, close to human habitations, but also in mature secundary humid forest. Brotogeris chiriri seems to be absent from semi-arid lowland Caatinga.

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Yellow-chevroned Parakeet (Brotogeris chiriri)
13/01/2010; Serra de Baturité, Ceará, Brazil. 300 mm f2.8 lens.
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Figure 2. The photo shows a small group of three birds, on a bunch of bananas in a small-holding in Guaramiranga. The bird to the left is shown in detail in fig. 1 above.

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Yellow-chevroned Parakeet (Brotogeris chiriri)
11/12/2009; Guaramiranga, Serra de Baturité, Ceará, Brazil. 300 mm f2.8 lens.
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Figure 3.

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