Parrots (Psittacidae)
Cobalt-winged Parakeet (Brotogeris cyanoptera) - HBW 4, p. 451
French: Toui de Deville
German: Kobaltflügelsittich
Spanish: Catita Aliazul
Taxonomy: Sittace cyanoptera Salvadori, 1891, Mission de Sarayacu and Amazon River.
Forms a parapatric species pair with B. chrysopterus, and these two may form superspecies with B.jugularis. Race gustavi may be separate species, although intermediates between this and nominate race have been found in lower Huallaga Valley. Three subspecies normally recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- cyanoptera (Salvadori, 1891) - SE Colombia and S Venezuela to E Ecuador, E Peru and WC Brazil.
- gustavi Berlepsch, 1889 - upper Huallaga, N Peru.
- beniensis Gyldenstolpe, 1941 - N Bolivia.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Many birds flying away from a salt lick, first at normal speed, then at slow motion (25 %) Locality Sacha Lodge, Orellana Province, Ecuador (ssp cyanoptera)
Josep del Hoyo 31 August 2007 4 years ago 57 sec 4.7 -
Two birds in a tree, heteropreening Locality Sacha Lodge, Orellana Province, Ecuador (ssp cyanoptera)
Josep del Hoyo 31 August 2007 4 years ago 29 sec 4.6 -
Many birds descending to a salt lick Locality Sacha Lodge, Orellana Province, Ecuador (ssp cyanoptera)
Josep del Hoyo 31 August 2007 4 years ago 52 sec 4.4 -
Many birds taking minerals at a salt lick and many more arriving, first at normal speed, then at slow motion (25 %) Locality Sacha Lodge, Orellana Province, Ecuador (ssp cyanoptera)
Josep del Hoyo 31 August 2007 4 years ago 51 sec 4.4 -
Several birds perched in a tree Locality Yasuní National Park, Orellana Province, Ecuador (ssp cyanoptera)
Anna Motis 11 August 2006 5 years ago 14 sec 4.3 -
A general view of birds on a clay lick Locality Yasuní National Park, Orellana Province, Ecuador (ssp cyanoptera)
Anna Motis 11 August 2006 5 years ago 26 sec 4.3
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Numerous individuals at clay lick.
Locality Napo River, Orellana Province, Ecuador
Miriam Bauman 31 December 2009 1 year ago 3.2 -
Bird in tree
Locality Orellana Province, Ecuador
Joe Prasil 1 January 2005 2 years ago 3 -
In riverside forest
Locality Juan Guerra, San Martín Department, Peru (ssp gustavi)
auf 14 August 2008 2 years ago 2.8 -
In a tree
Locality San José del Guaviare, Guaviare Department, Colombia
mauricio rueda 17 March 2012 9 weeks ago 2.7 -
A perched bird.
Locality Vogelpark Walsrode, Walsrode, Lower Saxony, Germany (ssp cyanoptera )
Tomasz Doroń 7 October 2009 2 years ago 1.7
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calls of a flock Locality Yasuní National Park, Orellana Province, Ecuador
(ssp cyanoptera)
Claus Fischer 26 April 2010 2 years ago 3 -
calls of a pair perched in the canopy Locality Tena, Napo Province, Ecuador
(ssp cyanoptera)
Dusan Brinkhuizen 31 December 2008 2 years ago 3
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