The Venezuelan parakeet (''Pyrrhura emma'') or Emma's conure is a
bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...
in the
parrot
Parrots, also known as psittacines (), are birds of the roughly 398 species in 92 genera comprising the order Psittaciformes (), found mostly in tropical and subtropical regions. The order is subdivided into three superfamilies: the Psittacoid ...
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 ...
. It was formerly considered conspecific with the
white-eared parakeet
The white-eared parakeet or maroon-faced parakeet (''Pyrrhura leucotis'') is a small parrot belonging to the genus ''Pyrrhura''. As here defined, it is endemic to Atlantic Forest in eastern Brazil. The Venezuelan, grey-breasted and Pfrimer's par ...
(''Pyrrhura leucotis'').
Range
''Pyrrhura emma'' occurs in forested areas of the
Venezuelan Coastal Range
The Venezuelan Coastal Range ( es, Cordillera de la Costa or ), also known as Venezuelan Caribbean Mountain System ( es, Sistema Montañoso Caribe) is a mountain range system and one of the eight natural regions of Venezuela, that runs along the c ...
. One population lies between
Yaracuy
Yaracuy State ( es, link=no, Estado Yaracuy, ;) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. It is bordered by Falcón in the north, in the west by Lara, in the south by Portuguesa and Cojedes and in the east by Cojedes and Carabobo.
Its geography ...
and
Miranda and another from
Anzoátegui
)
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to
Sucre
Sucre () is the Capital city, capital of Bolivia, the capital of the Chuquisaca Department and the List of cities in Bolivia, 6th most populated city in Bolivia. Located in the south-central part of the country, Sucre lies at an elevation of . T ...
and northern
Monagas
)
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.
Habitat
The Venezuelan parakeet occurs in wet and humid foothill forests and adjacent clearings.
References
Venezuelan parakeet
The Venezuelan parakeet (''Pyrrhura emma'') or Emma's conure is a bird in the parrot family Psittacidae. It was formerly considered conspecific with the white-eared parakeet (''Pyrrhura leucotis'').
Range
''Pyrrhura emma'' occurs in forested ar ...
Venezuelan parakeet
The Venezuelan parakeet (''Pyrrhura emma'') or Emma's conure is a bird in the parrot family Psittacidae. It was formerly considered conspecific with the white-eared parakeet (''Pyrrhura leucotis'').
Range
''Pyrrhura emma'' occurs in forested ar ...
Birds of the Venezuelan Coastal Range
Venezuelan parakeet
The Venezuelan parakeet (''Pyrrhura emma'') or Emma's conure is a bird in the parrot family Psittacidae. It was formerly considered conspecific with the white-eared parakeet (''Pyrrhura leucotis'').
Range
''Pyrrhura emma'' occurs in forested ar ...
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