Appearance
The rose-fronted parakeet is 20 to 23 cm long. The sexes are the same in all subspecies. Adults of the nominate subspecies "P. r. roseifrons" have a bright red crown and face and dirty whitish ear coverts. Their upperparts are mostly green with a maroon-red red lower back and rump. The hindcrown, throat, and breast are dark with buff to buffy-white edges to the feathers. The center of their belly is deep red to brownish red, and the rest of their underparts are yellowish green. Their wing is mostly green with blue primaries. Their tail is maroon. The iris is orange-brown to dark brown with pale pinkish white to blackish bare skin around it. Their bill is blackish with a whitish cere and their legs and feet are blackish gray. Immatures are similar to adults but without the red crown and face.Subspecies "P. r. peruviana" has a deep maroon forehead, a greenish blue forecrown, a dusky gray hindcrown and nape, and a thin light blue band on the upper hindneck. Its face is mostly deep rusty brown to deep maroon with some greenish blue below the eye. Its throat and breast feathers are grayish with blackish wedge shapes and yellowish fringes. Its tail has a green base. "P. r. dilutissima" is similar to "peruviana" but has less blue on the forecrown, a rusty red rather than maroon face, and a grayer throat and breast with more yellow. "P. r. parvifrons" resembles the nominate but has a narrow red lower forehead, a dark brown crown and nape, and a deep red-brown face.
Distribution
The subspecies of the rose-fronted parakeet are found thus:⤷ "P. r. peruviana", Morona-Santiago Province in southeastern Ecuador and Amazonas and Loreto provinces in northeastern Peru
⤷ "P. r. dilutissima", the Apurímac River valley in central Peru
⤷ "P. r. parvifrons", Peru: eastern San Martín and west central Loreto departments and disjunctly in northeastern Loreto, the latter possibly only south of the Amazon River
⤷ "P. r. roseifrons", south of the Amazon from northern Peru south to northern Bolivia and east into Brazil's Amazonas state
Status
The IUCN follows HBW taxonomy and so has separately assessed the subspecies of the rose-fronted parakeet. It has rated the nominate, "Garlepp's" parakeet, and "wavy-breasted" parakeet as being of Least Concern. None of them have a known population size and all populations are believed to be decreasing. No immediate threats have been identified for any of them. The species is known from a few protected areas. Some habitat is being lost to deforestation but the species does not appear to be much affected by the pet trade.Habitat
The rose-fronted parakeet inhabits lowland evergreen forests and nearby clearings. The one confirmed record in Ecuador was at 875 m. In Peru, it occurs as high as 1,650 m.Reproduction
The rose-fronted parakeet breeds between January and March in northeastern Peru. An active nest was found in southeastern Peru's Manú National Park in early October. The nest was in a cavity in a live tree about 9 m above the ground. It held three eggs and a newly hatched chick. Four adults were tending the clutch.Food
The rose-fronted parakeet has been observed foraging in flocks of up to about 30 individuals. Its diet includes fruit, seeds, flowers, and leaves of both wild and cultivated plants and trees.References:
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