Eupsittula canicularis eburnirostrum

(Lesson, 1842)

Vernacular names
English : Orange-fronted parakeet
French : Conure à front rouge

Classification
Class : Aves
Order : Psittaciformes
Family : Psittacidae
Notes : 2 other subspecies known.

Identification
Adults grow to 25 cm for a weight of 80 g. Clear horn-colored bill. Brownish throat, yellow-tinged breast and belly, rest of plumage bright green except for blue top of head and orange forehead. Subspecies with brown lower mandible.

Range and habitat
Subspecies endemic to south-west Mexico, from Michoacan to Oaxaca. Species found in west and south-west Mexico, south to Honduras and Costa Rica. Lives in open woodlands, plantations, forest edges, savannas, to 1500 m.

Conservation
IUCN RED LIST : VULNERABLE
CITES : Appendix II
Status : The species is locally very numerous, especially in Mexico but southern populations now endangered because of overtrapping for trade.
Ex-Situ Programs : None known

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