Birds of Brazil

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Genus: Forpus (4 species, 9 worldwide)

Forpus is a genus of sparrow-sized (around 13 cm.) green parrots, called Parrotlets


Riparian Parrotlet (Forpus crassirostris) Male Puerto Nariño, Amazonas, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Once grouped with the Blue-winged Parrotlet. Once called the Large-billed Parrotlet, but the large bill is only slightly larger. Note female is all green while male has some blue on the wings.


Dusky-billed Parrotlet (Forpus modestus sclateri) Cristalino Jungle Lodge, Mato Grosso, Brazil
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas) © All Rights Reserved.


Green-rumped Parrotlet (Forpus passerinus passerinus) Male French Guiana
Photograph by Michel GIRAUD-AUDINE © All Rights Reserved.


Green-rumped Parrotlet (Forpus passerinus cyanophanes) Female Los Flamencos Wildlife Sanctuary, Camarones, La Guajira, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Male has some blue in the wings.
Additional photo.


Cobalt-rumped Parrotlet (Forpus xanthopterygius) Male Brazil
Photograph by Wagner Machado Carlos Lemes Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Cobalt-rumped Parrotlet (Forpus xanthopterygius) Female Brazil Typical female in genus 'Forpus'.
Photograph by Wagner Machado Carlos Lemes Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.

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