Peach-fronted Parakeet Gallery

Eupsittula aurea

The Birds of the World Website introduces the Peach-fronted Parakeet with this introductory information:  Peach-fronted Parakeet is an inhabitant of savanna, gallery forest and cerrado from Suriname to south to northern Argentina, and west to extreme southeastern Peru. Peach-fronted Parakeet has a peachy orange forehead and midcrown; a pale orange orbital ring; dull blue wings, tail and hindcrown; and olive brown cheeks and underparts that fade to yellow-green on the undertail coverts. This parakeet is superficially similar to Orange-fronted Parakeet (Eupsittula canicularis), and the two may form a superspecies; but Orange-fronted Parakeet is confined to Central America, and there is no geographic overlap between the two. Peach-fronted Parakeet spends much time foraging on the ground where it feeds on seeds, flowers, leaves and insects. At times Peach-fronted Parakeet also raids fields of soybeans, rice and corn.

I saw, and photographed, my first Peach-fronted Parakeet on the morning of August 21, 2023.  I was walking a trail in Parque Mãe Bonifácia in Cuiabá, Brazil when I spotted this bird perched high in a tree.  I wasn’t sure what species this bird was, but was delighted to learn it was new to me.  Look here to see the details of my trip to Brazil that included the sighting of this bird.  Here are a couple of photos I took that morning.