Grey-cheeked Parakeet
Brotogeris pyrrhoptera(Latham, J, 1801)
English (US) Gray-cheeked Parakeet
UK name: Grey-cheeked Parakeet
The Grey-cheeked Parakeet (Brotogeris pyrrhoptera) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Psittacidae (African and New World Parrots) in the order Psittaciformes.
Range: arid scrub of western Ecuador and far northwestern PeruRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Brotogeris pyrrhoptera
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Gray-cheeked Parakeet
- English (UK)
- Grey-cheeked Parakeet
- Described by
- (Latham, J, 1801)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Psittacus pyrrhopterus
- Described by
- (Latham, J, 1801)
- Type locality
- Brazil, error Guayaquil, Ecuador, substituted by Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 55, 1926, p. 261.
- Original description
- Supplementum indicis ornithologici, sive systematis ornithologiæ p.xxii
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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