Brotogeris pyrrhoptera
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In 3 days ~70% in a week >90%
The grey-cheeked parakeet (Brotogeris pyrrhoptera), less commonly known as fire-winged parakeet, is a vulnerable species of bird. It is in the subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots, and is found in Ecuador and Peru.
The grey-cheeked parakeet was described and named by John Latham in 1801. It is monotypic. It and the orange-chinned parakeet (B. jugularis) are sister species. The grey-cheeked parakeet is 19 to 20.5 cm (7.5 to 8.1 in) long and weighs between 60 and 68 g (2.1 and 2.4 oz). Adults are mostly green that is paler and yellower on the underparts. They have a pale blue crown, pale ashy gray cheeks and sides of the neck, and a whitish eye ring and bill. Their primary coverts are deep blue and their underwing coverts orange to orange-red. Immature birds have green instead of blue crowns.
The grey-cheeked parakeet is found from western Ecuador's Manabí Province south into extreme northwestern Peru as far as the northern part of the Department of Piura. It inhabits a variety of landscapes including both deciduous and evergreen forests and more open woodlands, and... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Guayaquil | 🇪🇨 Ecuador |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
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| 1 | Amaru | 🇪🇨 Ecuador |
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Gray-cheeked Parakeet sighting in Guayaquil on a given day, based on 315 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 23rd most-seen of the 167 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June and November
In those months about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Gray-cheeked Parakeet in Guayaquil on a given day, against about 20% in January to March, the lowest months. Those are among Guayaquil's driest months, with about 10 mm of rain a month against 220 mm in February.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Gray-cheeked Parakeet sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Guayaquil, in our data
Guayaquil is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Gray-cheeked Parakeet sightings: about 40% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Gray-cheeked Parakeet is recorded against all the birds logged in Guayaquil (315 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.
