Birds of Colombia

    PSITTACIFORMES: Psittacidae (African & New World Parrots)  
Genus: Hapalopsittaca (2 species, 4 worldwide)


Rusty-faced Parrot
Rusty-faced Parrot (Hapalopsittaca amazonina) Near Threatened
ProAves Dusky Starfrontlet Reserve, Urrao, Antioquia, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Additional photo.


Fuertes's Parrot
Fuertes's Parrot (Hapalopsittaca fuertesi) Endangered ENDEMIC
Santa Rosa, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Robert Lewis   © All Rights Reserved.

Found at over 2500m in mossy forests on the west slope of the Central Andes in Colombia.
An individual with xanthochromism.


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