Three ‘new’ parakeet species from South America
March 01, 2001 — Filed in: Conservation
A review by Leo Joseph (published in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences) of patterns of geographical variation in Neotropical parakeets has recognised three endemic parakeets from north-western South America and nearby Panama as distinctive species. All three have recently been considered subspecies of the Painted Parakeet Pyrrhura picta, but Joseph shows that they bear little resemblance to that species.
