Monk Parakeet

Taxonomy

Order

Psittaciformes

Family

Psittacidae

Genus

Myiopsitta

eBird Code

monpar1

Subspecies (3)

• Myiopsitta monachus calita

  western Argentina (Salta to western Córdoba, Mendoza and La Pampa)

• Myiopsitta monachus cotorra

  southeastern Bolivia, Paraguay, southwestern Brazil, and northwestern Argentina (Formosa, Chaco, and Corrientes); the species is widely introduced elsewhere, primarily from nominate monachus, but populations in North America also originated in part from subspecies cotorra

• Myiopsitta monachus monachus

  southeastern Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina (Santa Fe to eastern Buenos Aires); species is widely introduced in North America (USA, Mexico, the Bahamas, Cayman Islands, and Puerto Rico), the Canary Islands, in Europe, and in Israel; source of most introduced populations is nominate monachus, but, at least in North America, some also originated from subspecies cotorra