The first photo was made by Carla Out in Bigi Pan, the second
one by J.S. Dunning at Galibi, Suriname in1978. Then two pictures
of a Brown-throated parakeet at a nesting site, made by Foek Chin
Joe at Weg naar Zee in July 2007: the birds like to excavate a
termite nest in a tree. And below the text is a picture made by
Pascal Dubois in French Guyane (2002) and one made by Jan Hein
Ribot on Aruba, 2008.
This parakeet eats seeds and flowers and fruit, but it is
especially fond of young corn. Its surinamese (and dutch) name
translates as corn parakeet. They fly around in noisy groups,
mostly small ones with 5 to 10 birds, but sometimes more then 100
are seen together. Nests are found all through the year.
The Dutch Antilles, Aruba (on the last photo), Curaçao and
Bonaire have their own subspecies, all a bit different in color.
The one from Curaçao is probably introduced on St. Thomas and
Puerto Rico.
Each small square indicates the observation of at least one (group) of these birds, the medium ones at least 4 observations on different days and the largest ones 10 or more. The color of each square indicates: blue for coastal area, yellow for savanna and red for rainforest. Biggest group reported 200 (Hannover savanna 1984, Ribot).
| Distribution in Suriname (explanation) | |
| Coastal area |  |
| Savanna | |
| Forests |  |
| Mountain forests |  |
| Sipalawini savanna | |
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