The black-legged parrot (''Pionites xanthomerius''), also known as the western white-bellied parrot, is a parrot species of the genus ''
Pionites
Caique ( or ) refers to a group of four species of parrots in the genus ''Pionites'' endemic to the Amazon Basin in South America. Name
The term "caique" is primarily used in aviculture, with ornithologists typically referring to them as the ...
'' in the family
Psittacidae
The family Psittacidae or holotropical parrots is one of three families of true parrots. It comprises the roughly 10 species of subfamily Psittacinae (the Old World or Afrotropical parrots) and 157 of subfamily Arinae (the New World or Neotropic ...
.
The species is native to eastern
Peru
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, western
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
, and northern Bolivia, although it may have been extirpated from
Santa Cruz as a result of
habitat destruction
Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) is the process by which a natural habitat becomes incapable of supporting its native species. The organisms that previously inhabited the site are displaced or dead, thereby ...
. Despite its population being in decline, the
IUCN
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natu ...
classifies it as Least Concern, citing its large range and relatively slow decline.
The three species ''Pionites leucogaster'' (
green-thighed parrot
The green-thighed parrot (''Pionites leucogaster''), also known as the eastern white-bellied parrot, is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae. The species was previously known as the white-bellied parrot (or white-bellied caique in avicul ...
), ''Pionites xanthomerius'' (black-legged parrot), and ''Pionites xanthurus'' (
yellow-tailed parrot
The yellow-tailed parrot (''Pionites xanthurus''), also known as the central white-bellied parrot, is one of the four species in the genus ''Pionites'' of the family Psittacidae. ''Pionites leucogaster'' (green-thighed parrot
The green-thighe ...
)
[Del Hoyo, J., Collar, N. & Kirwan, G.M. (2014). Black-legged Parrot (Pionites xanthomerius). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.) (2014). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from http://www.hbw.com/node/467506 on 3 January 2015)] were previously lumped as ''
Pionites leucogaster
The white-bellied parrot (''Pionites leucogaster''), or white-bellied caique in aviculture, is a species of bird in the subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and ...
''. The IOC World Bird List still considers it to be a subspecies of the
green-thighed parrot
The green-thighed parrot (''Pionites leucogaster''), also known as the eastern white-bellied parrot, is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae. The species was previously known as the white-bellied parrot (or white-bellied caique in avicul ...
(''Pionites leucogaster xanthomerius'').
References
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black-legged parrot
The black-legged parrot (''Pionites xanthomerius''), also known as the western white-bellied parrot, is a parrot species of the genus ''Pionites'' in the family Psittacidae. The species is native to eastern Peru, western Brazil, and northern Bol ...
Birds of the Amazon Basin
Birds of the Peruvian Amazon
Birds of the Bolivian Amazon
black-legged parrot
The black-legged parrot (''Pionites xanthomerius''), also known as the western white-bellied parrot, is a parrot species of the genus ''Pionites'' in the family Psittacidae. The species is native to eastern Peru, western Brazil, and northern Bol ...
black-legged parrot
The black-legged parrot (''Pionites xanthomerius''), also known as the western white-bellied parrot, is a parrot species of the genus ''Pionites'' in the family Psittacidae. The species is native to eastern Peru, western Brazil, and northern Bol ...