Aratinga jandaya
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In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
The jandaya parakeet (Aratinga jandaya), or jenday conure, is a small Neotropical parrot with green wings and tail, reddish-orange body, yellow head and neck, orange cheeks, and black bill, native to wooded habitats in northeastern Brazil. It is a member of the Aratinga solstitialis complex of parakeets very closely related to, and possibly subspecies of the sun conure.
The bird has a wide range, but is locally rare in the wild; they are common in aviculture, where they are known as "jenday conures". The first description of a bird called "jendaya" was by the German naturalist, Georg Marcgrave, who saw the bird during his 1638 expedition through Dutch Brazil. Based on Marcgrave's description, the jandaya parakeet was included in the works of Francis Willughby in 1678, John Ray in 1713, Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760, the Comte de Buffon in 1779, and John Latham in 1781. None of these ornithologists had seen a specimen of the bird. When in 1788 the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin revised and expanded Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae, he included the jandaya parakeet with a short description, coined the binomial name Psittacus jandaya and cited earlier publications... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | João Pessoa | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Belém | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | São Luís | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Fortaleza | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Rio de Janeiro | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
Likely
About 60% of wildlife watchers report a Jandaya Parakeet sighting in João Pessoa on a given day, based on 202 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 11th most-seen of the 99 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May and July
In those months about 70% of wildlife watchers report a Jandaya Parakeet in João Pessoa on a given day, against about 40% in January, the lowest month. Those are among João Pessoa's wettest months, with about 170 mm of rain a month against 20 mm in November.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Jandaya 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.
Yes
Of the 5 cities where we can rate Jandaya Parakeet sightings, João Pessoa has the highest daily chance: about 60%. Next come Belém (Brazil, about 30%) and São Luís (Brazil, about 30%).
Same family: Psittacidae
The closest relatives of the Jandaya Parakeet that you can see in João Pessoa (family Psittacidae, New World and African Parrots) are Red-shouldered Macaw (about 50%), Orange-winged Parrot (about 30%) and Blue-winged Parrotlet (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Jandaya Parakeet is recorded against all the birds logged in João Pessoa (202 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.
