#1180 · 🐦 birds

Blue-crowned Parakeet

🇳🇱 Blauwkoparatinga ·Thectocercus acuticaudatus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Bill Keim · CC BY 4.0
2. © Pedro N. Ramalho · CC BY 4.0
3. © Lindsay Willrick · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © ggroitman · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Erick Noe Tapia Banda · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

The blue-crowned parakeet , blue-crowned conure , or sharp-tailed conure ( Thectocercus acuticaudatus ) is a small green Neotropical parrot with a blue head and pale beak native to large parts of South America, from eastern Colombia in the north to northern Argentina in the south. They inhabit savanna-like habitats, woodland and forest margins, but avoid dense humid forest such as the Amazon.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,537iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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).