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Red-masked Parakeet
Psittacara erythrogenys
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About the Red-masked Parakeet
The red-masked parakeet (Psittacara erythrogenys) is a medium-sized parrot from Ecuador and Peru. It is popular as a pet and are better known in aviculture as the cherry-headed conure or the red-headed conure. They are also considered the best talkers of all the conures.
Source: Wikipedia
Classification
- Scientific name
- Psittacara erythrogenys
- Family
- New World and African Parrots
- Order
- Psittaciformes
Similar species
Other members of the new world and african parrots family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- Barred Parakeet Bolborhynchus lineola
- Black-capped Parakeet Pyrrhura rupicola
- Black-headed Parrot Pionites melanocephalus
- Blue-and-yellow Macaw Ara ararauna
- Blue-crowned Parakeet Thectocercus acuticaudatus
- Blue-headed Parrot Pionus menstruus
- Brown-hooded Parrot Pyrilia haematotis
- Burrowing Parakeet Cyanoliseus patagonus
- Carolina Parakeet Conuropsis carolinensis
- Chestnut-fronted Macaw Ara severus
- Crimson-fronted Parakeet Psittacara finschi
- Dusky-headed Parakeet Aratinga weddellii
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