Endangered
El Oro Parakeet
Pyrrhura orcesi
El Oro Parakeet is a parrot in the family Psittacidae (order Psittaciformes) — Pyrrhura orcesi, recorded as Endangered and tied to Ecuador.
Appearance
Adult males have a mostly green head with a red forehead and lores. Their throat, the sides of their neck, and their breast are green with grayish buff bars giving an indistinct scaly appearance. The rest of their underparts are green with some faint dull reddish on the belly.
The El Oro parakeet is 22 to 24 cm (8.7 to 9.4 in) long and weighs 65 to 75 g (2.3 to 2.6 oz).
Range and habitat
The El Oro parakeet is found only on the west slope of the Ecuadoran Andes in Azuay and El Oro provinces. It inhabits humid subtropical and tropical forest mostly between 600 and 1,300 m (2,000 and 4,300 ft) of elevation but has been found as low as 300 m (1,000 ft) and as high as 1,800 m (5,900 ft).
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
It typically forages in flocks of up to about 15 individuals but flocks as large as 60 have been observed. The El Oro parakeet's breeding season appears to span from March to July.
It also uses nest boxes provided by Buenaventura Reserve. El Oro parakeets breed cooperatively, a breeding pair being accompanied by up to six helpers.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
El Oro Parakeet is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on El Oro Parakeet, Wikidata item Q580007. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
