Nombre en español: Periquito Zafiro
Nombre en inglés: Sapphire-rumped Parrotlet
Nombre científico: Touit purpuratus
Familia: Psittacidae
La cotorrita purpurada o periquito zafiro (Touit purpuratus) es una especie de ave de la familia Psittacidae, que se encuentra en Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guayana francesa, Guyana, Perú, Surinam y Venezuela.
Hábitat
Vive en el dosel del bosque húmedo de la Amazonia, en tierra firme, pantanos o riberas y caatingas hasta los 400 m de altitud, frecuentemente en bandas, de 12 a 40 aves, o en parejas.
Descripción
Mide 17 a 18 cm de longitud. La mayoría del plumaje del cuerpo es verde con la corona y la nuca color marrón; las alas en los dos extremos presentan color marrón opaco; la grupa es azul violácea. Es inconfundible porque los extremos de la cola, tanto dorsal como ventral son de color rojo a púrpura con borde negro. En la hembra el color marrón de la cabeza es más claro y la cola presenta rayas verdes. La subespecie T. p. viridiceps tiene la cabeza completamente verde.
Sapphire-rumped parrotlet
The sapphire-rumped parrotlet (Touit purpuratus) is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical swamps, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Taxonomy
The sapphire-rumped parrotlet was described in 1781 by the English ornithologist John Latham under the English name, the «purple-tailed parakeet». Latham’s specimen had come from Cayenne in French Guiana. When in 1788 the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin revised and expanded Carl Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae, he included the sapphire-rumped parrotlet with a short description, coined the binomial name Psittacus purpuratus and cited Latham’s work.[5] The sapphire-rumped parrotlet is now placed with seven other parrotlets in the genus Touit that was introduced in 1855 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray. The genus name is derived from the extinct Tupi language that was spoken by native people in Brazil: Tuí eté means «really little parrot». The specific epithet purpuratus is Latin meaning «clad in purple».
Two subspecies are recognised:
- T. p. purpuratus (Gmelin, JF, 1788) – south Venezuela through the Guianas and north Brazil
- T. p. viridiceps Chapman, 1929 – southeast Colombia and south Venezuela to northwest Brazil, east Ecuador and northeast Peru
Distribution
It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. It inhabits lowland humid terra firme and varzea forest, savanna and open woodland up to an elevation of 1,400 m (4,600 ft).
Fuentes: Wikipedia/eBird/xeno-canto
