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Pileated Parrot
Pionopsitta pileata (Scopoli, 1769)
Psittacidae — African & New World Parrots
Pileated Parrot, Pionopsitta pileata, is a South American parrot of the family Psittacidae, breeding in south-east Brazil, eastern Paraguay and north-east Argentina. It was described by Scopoli in 1769. The species is the only member of its genus and has no subspecies. It is found mainly in humid forest, but also in more open, drier woodland with Araucaria and in partly cleared country. In Brazil it is known locally as cuiú cuiú.
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- Family
- Psittacidae — African & New World Parrots
- Breeding range
- South America: se Brazil, e Paraguay and ne Argentina
