Birds of the World


Pacific Parrotlet (Forpus coelestis) Male Range: SA: w Ecuador and nw Peru Colombia
Photograph by Brayan Coral Jaramillo © All Rights Reserved.


Spectacled Parrotlet (Forpus conspicillatus caucae) Male and Female Range: MA, SA: Panama, Colombia, Venezuela Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Common, in groups, and abundant now in the Cauca Valley in the sugar cane fields.
A male with full bill.


Riparian Parrotlet (Forpus crassirostris) Male Range: SA: se Colombia to n Peru and w Brazil 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.


Mexican Parrotlet (Forpus cyanopygius cyanopygius) Near Threatened Range: MA: w Mexico Durango Highway, Sinaloa, Mexico
Photograph by Ron Knight Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.

Typical small songbird size parrotlet. Male has some blue on the wings.


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


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


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

Male has some blue in the wings.
Additional photo.


Turquoise-winged Parrotlet (Forpus spengeli) Male Range: SA: n Colombia Loro Parque,
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Split from the Blue-winged Parrotlet, and found only in north Colombia. Like similar parrotlets, the female is all green while the male has a turquoise wings and rump.


Yellow-faced Parrotlet (Forpus xanthops) Vulnerable Range: SA: nc Peru Marañon Valley, Peru
Photograph by Bradley Hacker © All Rights Reserved.


Cobalt-rumped Parrotlet (Forpus xanthopterygius) Male Range: SA: c, se Brazil
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Cobalt-rumped Parrotlet (Forpus xanthopterygius) Female Range: SA: c, se 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.