Pacific Parrotlet Forpus coelestis
Pacific Parrotlet, Chaparri, Lambayeque, Peru - click for larger image Chaparri, Lambayeque, Peru

The Pacific Parrotlet is distributed in western Ecuador and north-western Peru. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. It is the only parrotlet in its range and is found in scrub, forest edges and fields.

Pacific Parrotlet, Chaparri, Lambayeque, Peru - click for larger image The male has bluish-grey on the back of the crown and nape and blue on the wings and rump. The female replaces most of that blue with emerald green apart from bluish-green from the eye to the nape as in photo 1.

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