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PILEATED PARROT Pionopsitta pileata ATLANTIC FOREST
For most Neotropical birders, the tick next to Pileated Parrot in their notebooks refers to a brief view of a noisy flock of short-tailed parrots flying high overhead in their characteristically erratic manner. Only with a large dose of luck will you see the birds perched - their all green plumage provides excellent camouflage and they remain silent when feeding so are easily overlooked.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE2663PH) Adult male, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Matt Denton October 2010).
FIGURE 2 - (FPAVE859PH) Adult male, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith October 2010).
FIGURE 3 - (FPAVE856PH) Adult male, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith June 2007).
FIGURE 4 - (FPAVE857PH) Adult male, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Sylvia Qu July 2008).
FIGURE 5 - (FPAVE858PH) Adult female, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith September 2006).
VIDEO A - (FPAVE860VI) Adults foraging, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith June 2007).
VIDEO B - (FPAVE861VI)  Adult male, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith October 2010).
VIDEO C - (FPAVE1240VI)  Adult female, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith September 2010).
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Pionopsitta pileata
1 (FPAVE862RE) Calls,  recorded Muxfeldt, Departamento Alto Paraná (Myriam Velázquez October 2001).
2 (FPAVE863RE) Calls, recorded Reserva Arroyo Blanco-Las Niñas, Departamento Amambay (Myriam Velázquez October 2000).
3 (FPAVE864RE) Calls, recorded Puerto Bertoni, Departamento Alto Paraná (Myriam Velázquez September 2000).
Click the link to hear the call. Longer versions of this call can be downloaded from the Paraguay page of our partner website Xeno-Canto - the largest collection of freely downloadable Neotropical bird calls available online.