Sulphur-breasted Parakeet
Group sulfur chest parakeets in Monte Alegre (Pará ), Brazil
The sulfur breast Parakeet ( Aratinga maculata ) is a South African parrot from the genus of macaws ( Aratinga ).
Description
The sulfur breast parakeet reached a size of 30 cm and a weight of 110 g The plumage is predominantly yellow. The top of the head, the mantle and the upper wing-coverts are pale greenish yellow. In the latter, the spring centers are greenish. The lower upper wing-coverts are bright yellow. One of the great wing-coverts and the shield springs back the coloring is increasingly parrot green. The rest of the flight feathers and coverts are dark blue. In the primaries, the inner webs black, the basal half of the outer webs are green. The tail center is largely olive green with a blue distal region. The outer tail feathers towards increasing the blue color. The outermost tail feathers are completely blue. The head and the bottom mostly hellhelb. The lower end portion of the orbital ring and the abdominal flanks are orange. At the bottom of some dark streaks shaft can be seen. The under-wing and under tail-coverts are blackish latter have a olive approach to the inner webs. The iris is dark gray. The beak is black, the feet are dark brown .. From similar Golden Conure ( Guaruba guarouba ) the nature differs mainly by its paler color and smaller size. The call is a high and shrill skriek skriek skriek.
Dissemination
Its distribution area is located east of Óbidos on the north bank of the lower Amazon in the Brazilian state of Pará. The birds live in groups of two to ten copies in open habitats with sandy soils and can also often in the town of Monte Alegre be seen.
System
The sulfur breast Parakeet belongs to the genus of macaws ( Aratinga ) and forms within the genus with the Jendayasittich, the Sun Parakeet, the gold crown Conure ( Aratinga auricapilla ) and possibly the Nandaysittich ( Nandayus nenday ) a monophyletic clade.
2005 form Aratinga pintoi was scientifically described as a new species and named after the Brazilian ornithologist Oliverio Pinto. In 2009 it was announced that the 1776 A. Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller described by shape Psittacus maculatus is pintoi identical. According to the statutes of the ICZN then both taxa were synonymized and, Statius Muller's scientific designation under the new combination Aratinga maculata priority.