Pyrrhura frontalis
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
The maroon-bellied parakeet (Pyrrhura frontalis) is a small parrot found from southeastern Brazil to north-eastern Argentina, including eastern Paraguay and Uruguay. It is also known as the reddish-bellied parakeet, and in aviculture it is usually referred to as the maroon-bellied conure, reddish-bellied conure or brown-eared conure.
The maroon-bellied parakeet was formally described in 1818 by the French ornithologist Louis Vieillot and given the binomial name Psittacus frontalis. Vieillot based his description on "La Perruche Ara à bandeau rouge" that had been described and illustrated by François Levaillant in 1801. The specific epithet frontalis is Modern Latin meaning "fronted" or "browed". Levaillant specified the locality as Brazil but Vieillot mistakenly changed this to Cayenne in French Guiana where the species does not occur. The locality is now restricted to the state of Espírito Santo in Brazil. The English naturalist George Shaw was formerly credited with introducing a binomial name for this species. In 1811 he had described the "banded parrakeet" and coined the name Psittacus vittatus, but in 1917 the American ornithologist Harry C. Oberholser pointed out... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Serra dos Órgãos National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Itatiaia National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Tijuca National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Serra da Canastra National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Iguazú National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 6 | Chapada Diamantina National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 7 | Iguaçu National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rio de Janeiro | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Buenos Aires | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 3 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Curitiba | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Santos | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parque das Aves | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Hamilton Zoo | 🇳🇿 New Zealand | |
| 3 | Halls Gap Zoo | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 4 | Rio de Janeiro Zoological Garden | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Loro Parque | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 6 | Kuala Lumpur Bird Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 7 | Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory | 🇨🇦 Canada |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Maroon-bellied Parakeet sighting in Iguazú National Park on a given day, based on 266 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 163rd most-seen of the 343 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January–February, June–August and October
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Maroon-bellied Parakeet in Iguazú National Park on a given day, against under 5% in March–May, September and November–December, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Maroon-bellied 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.
5th of 7
Of the 7 parks where we can rate Maroon-bellied Parakeet sightings, Iguazú National Park ranks 5th at about 10%. The best odds are in Serra dos Órgãos National Park (Brazil, about 70%), Itatiaia National Park (Brazil, about 60%) and Tijuca National Park (Brazil, about 30%). All parks ranked.
Same family: Psittacidae
The closest relatives of the Maroon-bellied Parakeet that you can see in Iguazú National Park (family Psittacidae, New World and African Parrots) are Scaly-headed Parrot (about 40%), White-eyed Parakeet (about 40%) and Yellow-chevroned Parakeet (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Maroon-bellied Parakeet is recorded against all the birds logged in Iguazú National Park (266 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.
