Bronze Winged Parrot

Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Mindo, February 2011.

Bird name: Bronze winged Parrot
Latin: Pionus chalcopterus
Other: Loro negro (Es) • Maitaca-asa-de-bronze (Br)
Family: Psittacidae • Parrots
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador to NW Peru
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Bronze-winged Parrots were quite conspicuous at the Rio Silanche and Milpe Reserves in northwest Ecuador.

Bronze-winged Parrots are predominantly dusky blue, have yellow bills, bronze on the wings, red and blue under the tail, white eye-rings and white throats.





Below, Bronze-winged at Silanche and Milpe Reserves, Ecuador, February 2011.