Aratinga pertinax
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
The brown-throated parakeet (Eupsittula pertinax), also known as the St. Thomas conure or brown-throated conure in aviculture, is a species of bird in the subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is found in Costa Rica, Panama, the northern mainland of South America, and islands off the South American coast.
The brown-throated parakeet was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. He placed it with all the other parrots in the genus Psittacus and coined the binomial name Psittacus pertinax. The brown-throated parakeet is now one of five species placed in the genus Eupsittula that was introduced in 1853 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek eu meaning "good" with the Modern Latin psittula meaning "little parrot". The specific epithet pertinax is Latin meaning "tenacious" or "persistent". Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Henri Pittier National Park | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 2 | Sierra de la Macarena National Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 3 | Tayrona National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 4 | Piedras Blancas National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 5 | La Amistad International Park (Panama) | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 6 | Volcán Barú National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 7 | Chagres National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 8 | Parque Natural Metropolitano | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 9 | Soberanía National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barranquilla | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 2 | Maracaibo | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 3 | Caracas | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 4 | Valencia | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 5 | Medellín | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 6 | Panama City | 🇵🇦 Panama |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kolmården Wildlife Park | 🇸🇪 Sweden | |
| 2 | Aviario Nacional de Colombia | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 3 | Loro Parque | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 4 | Monkeyland | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 5 | Adelaide Zoo | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 6 | El Nispero Zoo | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 7 | Birds of Eden | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 8 | ZOO Biopark Štít | 🇨🇿 Czechia |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-throated Parakeet sighting in Piedras Blancas National Park on a given day, based on 110 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 191st most-seen of the 344 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March–May, September and December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-throated Parakeet in Piedras Blancas National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–February, June–August and October–November, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Brown-throated 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.
4th of 9
Of the 9 parks where we can rate Brown-throated Parakeet sightings, Piedras Blancas National Park ranks 4th at under 5%. The best odds are in Henri Pittier National Park (Venezuela, about 20%), Sierra de la Macarena National Park (Colombia, about 10%) and Tayrona National Natural Park (Colombia, about 10%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Brown-throated Parakeet is recorded against all the birds logged in Piedras Blancas National Park (110 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.
