Parrots (Psittacidae)
Blue-winged Parrotlet (Forpus crassirostris) - HBW 4, p. 449
French: Toui de Spix
German: Blauflügel-Sperlingspapagei
Spanish: Cotorrita Aliazul
Taxonomy: Psittacula crassirostris Taczanowski, 1883, Yurimaguas, Peru.
Forms a superspecies with F. passerinus. Commonly referred to as F. xanthopterygius, which was shown in 1905 to have been applied to an immature Brotogeris chiriri, but which was mistakenly reinstated in 1945 when present species was separated from F. passerinus. Isolated race spengeli might belong with F. cyanopygius of Mexico; proposed race olallae included within nominate. Five subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- spengeli (Hartlaub, 1885) - N Colombia.
- crassirostris (Taczanowski, 1883) - SE Colombia, E Ecuador and N Peru to W Brazil.
- flavescens (Salvadori, 1891) - SE Peru and E Bolivia.
- spengeli (Hartlaub, 1885) - N Colombia.
- crassirostris (Taczanowski, 1883) - SE Colombia, E Ecuador and N Peru to W Brazil.
- flavescens (Salvadori, 1891) - SE Peru and E Bolivia.
- flavissimus Hellmayr, 1929 - NE Brazil.
- vividus (Ridgway, 1888) - E & SE Brazil, Paraguay and N Argentina.
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Male. Locality Quixadá, Ceará State, Brazil
Ciro Albano 26 January 2010 2 years ago 27 sec 4.7 -
Two birds at a cercropia tree Locality Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil
Juan Sanabria 1 November 2011 3 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 33 sec 4.3 -
Two adult birds Locality Maraial, Pernambuco State, Brazil
Carlos Gussoni 18 February 2011 48 weeks ago 26 sec 4 -
2 birds eating cercropia fruits Locality Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil
Juan Sanabria 1 November 2011 5 weeks ago 48 sec 3.8 -
Eating cercropia fruits Locality Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil
Juan Sanabria 1 November 2011 3 days ago ADDED LAST WEEK 36 sec 3.7 -
A bird perched still on a branch Locality Boa Nova, Bahia State, Brazil (ssp vividus)
Josep del Hoyo 18 January 2005 4 years ago 38 sec 3.1
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Blue-winged Parrotlet feeding.
Locality Bahia State, Brazil
Stephen John Jones 5 January 2009 1 year ago 3.6 -
A bird perched on a tree stump.
Locality Iguazú National Park, Misiones Province, Argentina (ssp vividus)
Carmelo López 5 November 2011 4 weeks ago 3 -
Two birds feeding on a tree
Locality Iguaçu Falls, Iguaçu National Park, Paraná State, Brazil
Aleix Comas 1 September 2008 2 years ago 3 -
A bird on a night perch, extremely well camouflaged between leaves. The whole tree was twittering, there was a large flock in th
Locality Santa Cruz Botanical Garden, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia (ssp flavescens )
Pia Öberg 23 August 2009 23 weeks ago 2.8 -
Um casal soliitario
Locality Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil
Marilene Rodrigues Omena 26 June 2011 33 weeks ago 2.5 -
on a wire
Locality Joinville, Santa Catarina State, Brazil
oleicfrisbee 15 weeks ago 2.2
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a pair Locality Pernambuco State, Brazil
(ssp Forpus xanthopterygius)
Ciro Albano 13 July 2004 2 years ago 4
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