Order: Psittaciformes | Family: Psittacidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Eastern Andes, Colombia
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Eastern Andes, Colombia
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Eastern Andes, Colombia
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonas, Peru
Status: The Golden-plumed Parakeet is rare to uncommon on humid montane forest of the east slope of Andes at elevations ranging between 2700-3350 m. It also occurs in Co and Ec.
Name in Spanish: Perico de Mejilla Dorada.
Sub-species: Golden-plumed Parakeet (Leptosittaca branickii), Berlepsch and Stolzmann, 1894.
Meaning of Name: Leptosittaca: Gr. Leptos= slender, thin and sittakos or psittacos= a parrot. branickii: in honor of Wladyslaw Graf Von Branicki (1848-1914) Polish ornithologist and collector.
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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 08/01/2015.