Endangered
Fuertes's Parrot
Hapalopsittaca fuertesi
Fuertes's Parrot is a parrot in the family Psittacidae (order Psittaciformes) — Hapalopsittaca fuertesi, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Adults have a thin red band just above the bill, an olive-yellow forecrown and face, a blue crown, and a green hindneck. Their upperparts are green with pale fringes on the mantle feathers. Their throat and breast are green with a golden-olive tinge and their belly, thighs, and undertail coverts are yellowish green. Their belly has variable amounts of dull red.
Fuertes's parrot is about 23 to 24 cm (9.1 to 9.4 in) long and weighs about 124 g (4.4 oz).
Range and habitat
Fuertes's parrot is found only on the west slope of Colombia's Central Andes in the departments of Quindío and Risaralda. More recently two other reserves have been established in its core habitat, Loro Coroniazul and Giles-Fuertesi Bird Reserves. Fuertes's parrot inhabits wet temperate cloudforest characterized by many epiphytes and oaks (Quercus).
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Its diet is fruit and that of Antidaphne viscoidea is especially favored. Extensive studies of the breeding biology of Fuertes's parrot have been conducted in concert with efforts to increase the species' population.
Most of the preserves provide nest boxes that are closely monitored. The species nests between January and May, using both the nest boxes and natural cavities in trees.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Fuertes's Parrot 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 Fuertes's Parrot, Wikidata item Q1062772. 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.
