Endangered
Santa Marta Parakeet
Pyrrhura viridicata
Santa Marta Parakeet is a parrot in the family Psittacidae (order Psittaciformes) — Pyrrhura viridicata, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Adults have a mostly green head with a red forehead and brownish ear coverts. Their breast and upper belly have a scarlet "belt" and the rest of their underparts are green. Their wing is mostly green with yellow to orange upperwing and underwing coverts. Their primaries are blue.
The Santa Marta parakeet is 23 to 25 cm (9.1 to 9.8 in) long.
Range and habitat
The Santa Marta parakeet is found only in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, an isolated mountain range in northern Colombia. Even though it apparently was previously found on all sides of the range, it now appears to occur only along the north and northwestern slopes. It primarily inhabits humid pre-montane and montane forest, mostly in areas that receive at least 2,000 mm (79 in) of annual rainfall.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The Santa Marta parakeet feeds on a variety of fruits and seeds, with the fruit of Croton bogotanus providing a major part of its diet. It forages in flocks of up to about 20 individuals.
Its diet varies over time with the changing abundance of its food, and it appears to use a wider variety of resources when its preferred food is not available. In a completely natural setting, the Santa Marta parakeet nests only in dead wax palms (Ceroxylon ceriferum). It also uses nest boxes placed in or near the forest.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Santa Marta 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 Santa Marta Parakeet, Wikidata item Q958816. 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.
