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The red-fronted parrotlet (Touit costaricensis) is a parrot in Central America in Costa Rica and Panama. It is 15 cm, green with a short tail, red forehead, lores, and under eye, red shoulders and leading edge of underwing, and the remaining underwing coverts yellow. Edges of tail also yellowish.

Red-fronted parrotlet
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Psittaciformes
Family:	Psittacidae
Genus:	Touit
Species:	T. costaricensis
Binomial name
Touit costaricensis (Cory, 1913)
Synonyms
Touit dilectissima costaricensis Touit dilectissimus costaricensis

Usually found in wet cool forest from 500-1000m in wet season, up to 3000m in early dry season and occasionally seen down to sea level. Small flocks, mostly family groups under 6 birds.

The red-fronted parrotlet is, especially in older sources like ITIS, often included with the blue-fronted parrotlet (T. dilectissimus) under the name red-winged parrotlet. Most modern authors consider them two species however.

References

• Juniper & Parr (1998) Parrots: A Guide to Parrots of the World; ISBN 0-300-07453-0.

External links

• BirdLife Species Factsheet.

На других языках

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- [en] Red-fronted parrotlet

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[fr] Toui du Costa Rica

Touit costaricensis

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[it] Touit costaricensis

Il pappagallino fronterossa (Touit costaricensis Cory, 1913) è un uccello della famiglia degli Psittacidi. Caratterizzato da un evidente bordo alare rosso, con piumaggio generale verde e taglia attorno ai 17 cm, presenta una zona rossa sulla fronte e sotto l'occhio, dove il maschio ha anche una sfumatura azzurra, assente nella femmina, e un'ampia zona sotto l'ala rossa e gialla (il maschio ha più rosso rispetto alla femmina, mentre l'immaturo è quasi totalmente privo del rosso facciale). Vive in Costa Rica e a Panama.

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