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

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, western

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, and northern Bolivia, although it may have been extirpated from Santa Cruz as a result of

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. Despite its population being in decline, the

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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

(''Pionites leucogaster xanthomerius'').

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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