Barred parakeet
| Barred parakeet | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Psittaciformes |
| Family: | Psittacidae |
| Genus: | Bolborhynchus |
| Species: | B. lineola |
| Binomial name | |
| Bolborhynchus lineola (Cassin, 1853) | |
| Subspecies | |
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B. l. lineola (Cassin 1853) | |
The barred parakeet (Bolborhynchus lineola), also known as the lineolated parakeet or the Catherine parakeet, is a small parrot found disjunctly in highland forests from southern Mexico to Panama, in the Andes from western Venezuela to southern Peru and Bolivia, the Santa Marta Mountains in Colombia and the Venezuelan Coastal Range. Its plumage is mostly green with multiple black and dark green stripes or bars, and it has a pale-horn coloured beak. The dark stripes vary in prominence between its two subspecies. Several colour mutants are available in aviculture.
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