Endangered
Grey-breasted Parakeet
Pyrrhura griseipectus
Long thought to be endemic to Ceará in northeastern Brazil, it has also been documented in Bahia.
Appearance
The grey-breasted parakeet is 20 to 23 cm (7.9 to 9.1 in) long. Adults have a brown crown, a plum-red face, and white ear coverts. Their upperparts are mostly green with a red-brown rump.
Range and habitat
Its historical range included at least 15 locations in Ceará, Alagoas, Pernambuco, and Rio Grande do Norte. The Ceará population inhabits patches of tall humid forest within otherwise dry caatinga and in granite- or sandstone-dominated areas. It is almost always found above 500 m (1,600 ft) of elevation.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The grey-breasted parakeet forages for fruits and seeds in the forest canopy. The grey-breasted parakeet's breeding season is not fully known but in Ceará includes February and March.
It nests in cavities in trees and in rocks, and also uses nest boxes erected by conservation projects.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Grey-breasted 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 Grey-breasted Parakeet, Wikidata item Q1262774. 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.
