Pyrrhura frontalis
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In 3 days >90%
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 |
Very likely
About 70% of wildlife watchers report a Maroon-bellied Parakeet sighting in Serra dos Órgãos National Park on a given day, based on 455 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 8th most-seen of the 336 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May
In that month about 90% of wildlife watchers report a Maroon-bellied Parakeet in Serra dos Órgãos National Park on a given day, against about 50% in November, the lowest month. That is one of Serra dos Órgãos National Park's driest months, with about 95 mm of rain against 310 mm in November.
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.
Yes
Of the 7 parks where we can rate Maroon-bellied Parakeet sightings, Serra dos Órgãos National Park has the highest daily chance: about 70%. Next come 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 Serra dos Órgãos National Park (family Psittacidae, New World and African Parrots) are Plain Parakeet (about 70%), White-eyed Parakeet (about 60%) and Scaly-headed Parrot (about 60%), 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 Serra dos Órgãos National Park (455 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.
