Kingdom Animalia Family Psittacidae Tribe Androglossini Phylum Chordata Rank Species | Superfamily Psittacoidea Subfamily Arinae Scientific name Pionopsitta pileata Higher classification Pionopsitta Order Parrot | |
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Genus Pionopsitta
Bonaparte, 1854 Similar Parrot, Blue‑bellied parrot, Brown‑hooded parrot, Pyrilia, Saffron‑headed parrot | ||
Red capped pileated parrot
The pileated parrot (Pionopsitta pileata), also known as the red-capped parrot (leading to easy confusion with the Australian Purpureicephalus spurius), is a medium-small species of parrot with a total length of about 22 cm (8.7 in). It is found in or near the Atlantic Forest in south-eastern Brazil, far north-eastern Argentina and eastern Paraguay. A local name in Paraguayan Guaraní is cúiu cúiu.
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Unlike all other species previously placed in the genus Pionopsitta, the pileated parrot does not have a contrasting brownish-olive chest, and recently it was established via mtDNA that it is indeed distinct enough for the others to be moved into a separate genus, Pyrilia, again making Pionopsitta monotypic. The plumage of the pileated parrot is overall green with bluish flight feathers, a faint brownish-maroon auricular patch (lacking in juveniles) and, in the male, a bright red forehead that extends down to just below the eyes.
Pionopsitta pileata pileated parrot
