Brown-throated parakeet

Appearance

The brown-throated parakeet is mostly green, with the lowerparts being a lighter green than the upperparts. Black/grey beak. Some blue in the wing feathers. Head and face colours depend on the subspecies. Though most subspecies are brown-throated, both "E. p. pertinax" and "E. p. xanthogenia" have most of the head, including the throat, orange-yellow.

Distribution

It is found widely in woodland, savanna and scrub in northern South America in Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, the ABC islands in the Netherlands Antilles, and northern Brazil with a disjunct population in south-western Pará. Another disjunct population is found in southern Central America in Panama and Costa Rica, and is sometimes considered a separate species, the Veraguas parakeet. The brown-throated parakeet has been introduced to Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and various other islands in the Lesser Antilles.