#1173 · 🐦 birds

Red-masked Parakeet

🇳🇱 Ecuadoraratinga ·Psittacara erythrogenys

NTnear threatened 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The red-masked parakeet ( Psittacara erythrogenys ) is a medium-sized parrot from Ecuador and Peru. It is popular as a pet and are known in aviculture as the cherry-headed conure or the red-headed conure . They are also considered the best talkers of all the conures.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,115iNaturalist observations
threat NTnear threatened

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
4,115 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by René Lesson in 1844 (182 years ago).