English            -             Peach-fronted Parakeet

Portuguese    -             Jandaia-Coquinho

Latin                -            Eupsittula aurea

I photographed the Peach-fronted Parakeet on a road side just south of a town called Miranda (2,136 km west of Vila Velha) in Mato Grosso do Sul. We were traveling down a dirt road when we stopped to photograph something else drinking at a water hole, when I noticed the Peach-fronted Parakeet sitting in a tree on the other side of the road. It was a bright sunny hot day but unfortunately the sun was shinning into the camera so the colours of the Peach-fronted Parakeet aren’t as obvious. There was a small flock of them that appeared to be grooming themselves in the tree. They didn’t seemed to concerned by my presents.

* The Peach-fronted Parakeet is also  known as the peach-fronted conure.

* It has an average length of around 25 cm and weighs around 105 g.

* it is found in Suriname, south to northern Argentina, and west to extreme southeastern Peru. 

* Its natural environment is savanna, gallery forest and the cerrado of south America. 

* The Peach-fronted Parakeet has a type of nasal “rreh” sound. Mostly heard in flight.

* The female lays 2 to 4 eggs which are incubates for 26 days. The nestlings fledge after 52 days. 

* The Peach-fronted Parakeet is not globally threatened and with a large range and abundant numbers, the Peach-fronted Parakeet is classified as a species ”of least concern”.