Ochre-marked Parakeet (Pyrrhura cruentata)
About the Ochre-marked Parakeet
The ochre-marked parakeet (Pyrrhura cruentata) is a species of parrot native to Brazil. It is also known as blue-throated parakeet in English and tiriba-grande, tiriba, cara-suja and fura-mato-grande in Portuguese. It is listed as Vulnerable (VU) on the IUCN Red List. This colourful parakeet is a predominantly green bird with conspicuous red patches on its belly, rump, and shoulder and before, below and behind the eye. The crown is dark brown to blackish, becoming mottled on the nape of the neck, and there is a broad, bright blue bib on the chest, extending thinly around the back of the neck to form a faint collar. The outer primaries are blue, and the tail is olive-green above, and brownish red below.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 21 recordings for this species: 18 CC BY-NC-SA · 3 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Brazil in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Maroon-tailed ParakeetPyrrhura melanurarecording
- Painted ParakeetPyrrhura pictarecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.