Touit purpuratus
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In 3 days ~10%
The sapphire-rumped parrotlet (Touit purpuratus) is a species of bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
The sapphire-rumped parrotlet was described in 1781 by the English ornithologist John Latham under the English name "purple-tailed parakeet". Latham's specimen had come from Cayenne in French Guiana. When in 1788 the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin revised and expanded Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae, he included the sapphire-rumped parrotlet with a short description, coined the binomial name Psittacus purpuratus, and cited Latham's work. The sapphire-rumped parrotlet is now placed with seven other parrotlets in the genus Touit that was introduced in 1855 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray. The genus name is derived from the extinct Tupi language that was spoken by native people in Brazil: Tuí eté means "really little parrot". The specific epithet purpuratus is Latin meaning "clad in purple". Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Manaus | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Sapphire-rumped Parrotlet sighting in Manaus on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 98th most-seen of the 116 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Sapphire-rumped Parrotlet in Manaus on a given day, against under 5% in September to July, the lowest months. That is one of Manaus's driest months, with about 50 mm of rain against 270 mm in March.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Sapphire-rumped Parrotlet 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 Manaus, in our data
Manaus is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Sapphire-rumped Parrotlet sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Psittacidae
The closest relatives of the Sapphire-rumped Parrotlet that you can see in Manaus (family Psittacidae, New World and African Parrots) are White-eyed Parakeet (about 60%), White-winged Parakeet (about 50%) and Red-bellied Macaw (about 50%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Sapphire-rumped Parrotlet is recorded against all the birds logged in Manaus (7 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.
