Peach-fronted Parakeet

Peach-fronted Parakeet

Aratinga aurea

Silhouette: Myriam_Ramirez · PhyloPic

Daily sighting probability ~40% · Likely
at Chapada dos Guimarães National Park

In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%

316 Verified sightings at Chapada dos Guimarães National Park From 2019 to 2026
1,523 In all 7 parks
June Best month
☀️ Diurnal When it's spotted

About the Peach-fronted Parakeet

The peach-fronted parakeet (Eupsittula aurea), known as the peach-fronted conure in aviculture, is a species of bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Suriname.

The peach-fronted parakeet was formally described in 1788 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with all the other parrots in the genus Psittacus and coined the binomial name Psittacus aurius. Gmelin based his description on earlier publications. In 1758 the English naturalist George Edwards had described and illustrated the species with the English name "golden-crowned parakeet". The peach-fronted parakeet is now one of five parakeets placed in the genus Eupsittula that was introduced in 1853 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek eu meaning "good" with the Modern Latin psittula meaning "little parrot". The specific epithet aurea is Latin meaning "golden". The species is monotypic; no subspecies are recognized.

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Sounds

Recording0:03

Brazil · 2016

© Luciano Bernardes · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0

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Brazil · 2025

© Thalli · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0

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Brazil · 2026

© Liu Idárraga Orozco · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Emas National Park 🇧🇷 Brazil
~80%
2 Serra da Canastra National Park 🇧🇷 Brazil
~50%
3 Chapada dos Guimarães National Park 🇧🇷 Brazil
~40%
4 Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas 🇧🇷 Brazil
~30%
5 Serra dos Órgãos National Park 🇧🇷 Brazil
<5%
6 Chapada Diamantina National Park 🇧🇷 Brazil
<5%
7 Tambopata National Reserve 🇵🇪 Peru
<5%

Cities Where Found

# City Country Daily sighting probability
1 Salvador 🇧🇷 Brazil
~60%
2 Campo Grande 🇧🇷 Brazil
~50%
3 Vitória 🇧🇷 Brazil
~30%
4 Goiânia 🇧🇷 Brazil
~10%
5 Santa Cruz de la Sierra 🇧🇴 Bolivia
~10%
6 Belém 🇧🇷 Brazil
<5%
7 Rio de Janeiro 🇧🇷 Brazil
<5%
8 Brasilia 🇧🇷 Brazil
<5%
9 Campinas 🇧🇷 Brazil
<5%
10 Maceió 🇧🇷 Brazil
<5%

Zoos & Centres Where Found

# Zoo / Centre Country
1 Parque das Aves 🇧🇷 Brazil In captivity
2 Biocentro Güembé 🇧🇴 Bolivia In captivity
3 Zoo Osnabrück 🇩🇪 Germany In captivity
4 Zoo das Aves 🇧🇷 Brazil In captivity
5 Parque Ecológico de São Carlos 🇧🇷 Brazil In captivity
6 Loro Parque 🇪🇸 Spain In captivity
7 Zoológico de Fauna Sudamericana 🇧🇴 Bolivia In captivity
8 Parque Zoológico Bosque Guarani 🇧🇷 Brazil In captivity
9 Agroflori Parque de las Aves 🇧🇴 Bolivia In captivity
10 Pantanal Aquarium 🇧🇷 Brazil In captivity
11 Parque Loro Sexi 🇪🇸 Spain In captivity
12 GüiráOga 🇦🇷 Argentina In captivity

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a Peach-fronted Parakeet in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park?

Likely

About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Peach-fronted Parakeet sighting in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park on a given day, based on 316 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 17th most-seen of the 273 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see a Peach-fronted Parakeet in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park?

June

In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Peach-fronted Parakeet in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park on a given day, against about 30% in December and January, the lowest months. That is one of Chapada dos Guimarães National Park's driest months, with about 10 mm of rain against 240 mm in March. February to April have too few records to rate.

What time of day is best to see a Peach-fronted Parakeet?

Between 3 and 6 pm

Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Peach-fronted Parakeet sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.

Is Chapada dos Guimarães National Park the best place to see a Peach-fronted Parakeet?

3rd of 7

Of the 7 parks where we can rate Peach-fronted Parakeet sightings, Chapada dos Guimarães National Park ranks 3rd at about 40%. The best odds are in Emas National Park (Brazil, about 80%) and Serra da Canastra National Park (Brazil, about 50%). All parks ranked.

Where does the Peach-fronted Parakeet sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Peach-fronted Parakeet is recorded against all the birds logged in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park (316 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.

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