Guaruba guarouba
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The golden parakeet, golden conure, or Queen of Bavaria conure (Guaruba guarouba) is a medium-sized golden-yellow Neotropical parrot native to the Amazon Basin of interior northern Brazil. It is the only species placed in the genus Guaruba.
Its plumage is mostly bright yellow, hence its common name, but it also possesses green remiges. It lives in the drier, upland rainforests in Amazonian Brazil, and is threatened by deforestation and flooding, and also by the now-illegal trapping of wild individuals for the pet trade. It is listed on CITES appendix I.
The golden parakeet was listed in 1633 by the Dutch geographer Joannes de Laet in his History of the New World. He gave the local name as Guiarubas. De Laet included the parakeet in the 1640 French translation of his book. The word Guiarubas comes from the Tupi language: Guarajúba means "yellow bird". The golden parakeet was also described by the German naturalist Georg Marcgrave in 1648 in his Historia Naturalis Brasiliae. Marcgrave gave the local name as Quiivbatvi. Based on Marcgrave's description, the golden parakeet was included in the works of Francis Willughby in 1678, John Ray in 1713, and Mathurin Jacques Brisson... Wikipedia →
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| 1 | Belém | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Golden Parakeet sighting in Belém on a given day, based on 18 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 75th most-seen of the 144 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September and December
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Golden Parakeet in Belém on a given day, against under 5% in January–April and June, the lowest months. Those are among Belém's driest months, with about 120 mm of rain a month against 440 mm in March.
Only Belém, in our data
Belém is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Golden Parakeet sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Psittacidae
The closest relatives of the Golden Parakeet that you can see in Belém (family Psittacidae, New World and African Parrots) are White-winged Parakeet (about 60%), Orange-winged Parrot (about 60%) and Jandaya Parakeet (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Golden Parakeet is recorded against all the birds logged in Belém (18 verified sightings), 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.
