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Saffron-headed Parrot
Pyrilia pyrilia (Bonaparte, 1853)
Psittacidae — African & New World Parrots
Saffron-headed Parrot, Pyrilia pyrilia, is a parrot of Middle and South America, breeding from eastern Panama into north-west Venezuela. It belongs to the family Psittacidae and was described by Bonaparte in 1853. It is found in humid and wet forest, including both primary and secondary growth, and also in cloudforest. Adults have an almost wholly yellow head and neck, a bare white eye-ring, and a red wash behind the eye. The rest of the body is mainly green, with yellow shoulders, red carpals and flanks, and dark-tipped tail feathers.
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- Family
- Psittacidae — African & New World Parrots
- Breeding range
- Middle America, South America: e Panama to nw Venezuela
