Birds of Brazil

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Genus: Touit (5 species, 8 worldwide)


Lilac-tailed Parrotlet (Touit batavicus) Trinidad
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A rare wanderer that can turn up in small groups anywhere (ProAves), Note lilac tail and black back.


Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet (Touit huetii) San José del Guaviare, Colombia
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Brown-backed Parrotlet (Touit melanonotus) Near Threatened ENDEMIC
Photograph by Carlos Henrique Luz Nunes de Almeida Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.

Found inside lowland forest. Note thick orange eye-ring, and brown back with bluish tinge.


Sapphire-rumped Parrotlet (Touit purpuratus)
Photograph by Marco Cruz © All Rights Reserved.


Golden-tailed Parrotlet (Touit surdus) Vulnerable ENDEMIC Fazenda Agua Boa, Bahia, Brazil
Photograph by Vivek Tiwari © All Rights Reserved.

Often fans tail unlike other parrotlets.

© Tom Friedel - All Rights Reserved, except for images and data otherwise noted.       Colombia       Panama       Ecuador       Costa Rica       Mexico
Experimental sites:       Peru       Venezuela       The World       Brazil       Bolivia
Really Experimental sites:       Guyana       Cuba