Slender-billed Parakeet
Long -billed Parrots
The long beak parakeet ( Enicognathus leptorhynchus ) is a wading bird of the subfamily Neuweltpapageien. The species occurs in South America.
Appearance
The long beak parakeet reaches a body length of 40 centimeters. Striking design and name is the greatly elongated upper beak.
The plumage is mostly dull green. Every feather is lined dark gray-brown. Similar to the Emerald Parakeet forehead and the reins are brownish red, but the long beak parakeet this color lining surrounds even the eye. In some individuals there is a brown-red belly spot. The primary coverts and the primaries are blue tinged with green to blue. The under tail-coverts are green. The tail feathers are brownish-red and end up going slightly greenish.
Distribution and behavior
The long beak parakeet has its main range in Chile. The northern distribution limit is Aconcagua and it occurs to the island of Chiloé, isolated even in the north of Aysen. The habitat of the long beak parakeet are the Cordilleras to heights of 2,000 meters. Depending on the season it comes to lengthy hikes.
Long -billed Parrots find a lot of their food on the ground. With their long beaks, they dig for the roots of grasses. In this they recall the Australian cockatoos nose, with which they are however not closely related. Long -billed Parrots eat during the winter months on grain and corn fields, where they dig up fresh seeders seeds again. There are cavity nesters, nesting in tree hollows and rock crevices.