Loro Frentiamarillo

Poicephalus flavifrons

Un loro robusto de tamaño mediano con un pico grande y una cola corta. Mayormente verde oscuro, con un gran parche amarillo en la cara que está ausente en los inmaduros. Un endémico de Etiopía que se encuentra en elevaciones medias en una variedad de hábitats de bosque y arboleda. Sus reclamos son chillidos finos y agudos. Similar al loro de Meyer, pero hay poca superposición en el rango, y el loro de frente amarilla se distingue por la falta de hombros amarillos y por las partes superiores verdes.

Identificación

The yellow-fronted parrot is about 28 centimetres (11 in) long and is mostly green with the upper parts being a darker green, the tail being olive-brown, and the legs a dark grey-brown. The face is orange-yellow. When two subspecies are recognized, the nominate is believed to have yellow to its head and face, while in P. f. aurantiiceps some of the yellow is replaced with orange. The upper beak is brownish-grey and the lower beak is bone coloured, the irises are orange-red, and bare eye-rings and cere are grey. Male and female adults have identical external appearance. Juveniles are duller than the adults with a mostly grey head, brown irises, and only a small amount of yellow on the front of the face including on the forehead.

Taxonomía

German naturalist Eduard Rüppell first described the yellow-fronted parrot in 1845. Its species name is derived from the Latin words flavus "yellow", and frons "forehead". <p>It is also known as the yellow-faced parrot. Most recent authorities treat it as monotypic, but some recognized two slightly different subspecies, P. f. flavifrons and P. f. aurantiiceps.

Nombre científico
Poicephalus flavifrons
Autoridad
(Rüppell, 1842)
Orden
Psittaciformes
Familia
Psittacidae
Género
Poicephalus

Distribución y hábitat

This parrot is endemic to the Ethiopian Highlands at about 1,000–3,000 metres (3,300–9,800 ft) above sea level. When two subspecies are recognized, the nominate is found in the highlands around Lake Tana and also in central Ethiopia, and P. f. aurantiiceps is found in southwestern Ethiopia. It lives in forest habitats, unlike most other Poicephalus parrots apart from the Cape and red-fronted parrot superspecies complex.

Migración
Resident species

Conservación

Tendencia poblacional
stable

Fotos

Distribución

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