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Maroon-bellied Parakeet

Pyrrhura frontalis

Classification

Class
Aves

The maroon-bellied parakeet (Pyrrhura frontalis) is a small parrot found from southeastern Brazil to north-eastern Argentina, including eastern Paraguay and Uruguay. It is also known as the reddish-bellied parakeet, and in aviculture it is usually referred to as the maroon-bellied conure, reddish-bellied conure or brown-eared conure. Taxonomy The maroon-bellied parakeet was formally described in 1818 by the French ornithologist Louis Vieillot and given the binomial name Psittacus frontalis.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 47,860Netherlands · 2Spain · 2