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Patagonian conure, a burrowing parrot, perched on a branch

Burrowing parrot

Burrowing parrots need cliffs of soft sandstone or limestone to dig their nest holes. Their numbers have declined in many areas owing to their habit of raiding crops.

Scientific name: Cyanoliseus patagonus

Rank: Species

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Distribution

Map showing the distribution of the Burrowing parrot taxa

Species range provided by WWF's Wildfinder.

The Burrowing parrot can be found in a number of locations including: South America. Find out more about these places and what else lives there.

Habitats

The following habitats are found across the Burrowing parrot distribution range. Find out more about these environments, what it takes to live there and what else inhabits them.

Behaviours

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Additional data source: Animal Diversity Web

Conservation Status

Least Concern

  1. EX - Extinct
  2. EW
  3. CR - Threatened
  4. EN - Threatened
  5. VU - Threatened
  6. NT
  7. LC - Least concern

Year assessed: 2009

Classified by: IUCN 3.1

About

The Burrowing Parrot (Cyanoliseus patagonus) is a bird species in the parrot family. It belongs to the smaller long-tailed Arinae (macaws and conures), and is also known as Patagonian Conure. The Burrowing Parrot belongs to the monotypic genus Cyanoliseus, but the species is not monotypic, having several subspecies.

It is mainly found in Argentina. A very much reduced population still survives in Chile, and migration of some Argentine populations to Uruguay has been reported for the winter months. Sometimes strong westerly winds bring some individuals as far as the Falkland Islands.

Its natural habitats is the arid bush steppe community known as Monte.

The Burrowing Parrot has a monogamous mating system with very strong bi-parental care. Genetic testing has recently shown that this species is one of a few animals that is genetically monogamous in a socially monogamous mating system. Also, nest parasitism is not known to occur in this species.

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Classification

  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Vertebrates
  4. Birds
  5. Parrots
  6. True parrots
  7. Cyanoliseus
  8. Burrowing parrot

BBC News about Burrowing parrot

  • Protecting Argentina's parrot colony You might think that 180,000 squawking, screeching parrots living in 35,000 nests along 12km (seven miles) of coastline would draw quite a lot of attention.

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