Barraband's Parrots
Splendour Parrots
Barrabands in Aviculture and as Pets
Status / Distribution:
CITES II - Endangered Species 
Distribution: Eastern Amazonas, Brazil, Southern Venezuela, Southern Bolivar, West to Eastern Colombia.
Personality:
The Barrabands are very quiet in an aviary, with an endearingly friendly and gentle personality. They are highly social and should be kept with a mate or in a group environment. In the wild, Superb Parrots are almost always found in flocks. They acclimatize fairly easily to a new environment and are very hardy.
Description:
Green; head black; cheeks orange-yellow; breast and throat olive-yellow; thighs yellow; bend of wing and lesser wing-coverts orange yellow-red; edge of wing and under wing-coverts orange-red; primaries and primary-coverts virtually black; middle tail-feathers with blue tip; outer tail-feathers with yellow markings to inner webs; bill blackish; periophthalmic ring whitish; iris dark brown; feet grey.
Immatures with paler colouring to head; forehead, nape, cheeks and chin olive interspersed with brown; bend of wing and wing-coverts green with a few yellow feathers; edge of wing and under wing-coverts interspersed with green.
Length: 25 cm (10 ins)
Taxonomy:
Genus: Scientific: Pionopsitta ... English: Splendour Parrots ... Dutch: Prachtpapegaaien ... German: Zierpapageien
... French: Caica Species: Scientific: Pionopsitta barrabandi barrabandi aka Gyopsitta barrabandi barrabandi ... English: Barraband's Parrot ... Dutch: Barrabands Papegaai ... German: Goldwangenpapagei ... French: Perroquet Barraband Barraband's Parrot Pionopsitta barrabandi Sub-Species: barrabandi, aurantiigena
Related Websites: Lexicon of Parrots
Sub-species:
Brazilian Barraband's Parrots: Genus: Scientific:Pionopsitta ... English: Splendour Parrots ... Dutch: Prachtpapegaaien ... German: Zierpapageien ... French: Caica Species: Scientific: Pionopsitta barrabandi aurantiigena aka Gyopsitta barrabandi aurantiigena ... English: Brazilian Barraband's Parrot ... Dutch: Braziliaanse Barrabands Papegaai ... German: Brasilien Goldwangenpapagei ... French: Perroquet Barraband Gyldenstolpe
Description: As barrabandi, but cheeks, bend of wing, edge of wing, lesser wing-coverts and thighs orange-red. Length: 25 cm (10 ins)
CITES II - Endangered Species Distribution: Amazonas, Brazil, West to North-eastern Bolivia, North-eastern Peru, Eastern Ecuador
Related Websites: Lexicon of Parrots (Please scroll down to no. 2 - click on link to view photo.)
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