Yellow-chevroned Parakeet (Brotogeris chiriri)
(aka Chiriri Parakeet)

Brazilian name: periquito-de-encontro-amarelo
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet, Vila Bela de Santíssima Trindade, Mato Grosso, Brazil, March 2003 - click for larger image Mato Grosso, Brazil

The Yellow-chevroned Parakeet is distributed in central and eastern Brazil, northern Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia. It is found in gallery forest, open woodland and caatinga.
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet, Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil, December 2006 - click for larger image It looks similar to Canary-winged Parakeet Brotogeris versicolurus with which it is often treated as being conspecific but, while it shares the yellow of the secondary coverts, it lacks that species white on the primaries

There are illustrations in HBW, Volume 4, Page 448; and Sick, Plate 17.
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet, Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil, December 2006 - click for larger image There are recordings and a distribution map on xeno-canto.
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet, Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil, December 2006 - click for larger image
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