Blue-crowned Parakeet
Thectocercus acuticaudatus
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- Family
- Psittacidae
- Genus
- Thectocercus
- eBird Code
- bucpar
Taxonomy Changes
Aratinga acuticaudata → Thectocercus acuticaudatus
Genus transfer — GBIF Backbone Taxonomy uses the former name; AviList 2025 uses the current name.
Vocalizations
euqirneto · CC0_1_0
Damien Wallace · CC_BY_4_0
W Rao · CC_BY_4_0
Pablo H Capovilla · CC_BY_4_0
Leandro Bareiro Guiñazú · CC_BY_4_0
Damien Wallace · CC_BY_4_0
xianning · CC0_1_0
Pedro Beja · CC_BY_4_0
Subspecies (5)
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Thectocercus acuticaudatus acuticaudatus
eastern Bolivia to Paraguay, southern Brazil, western Uruguay, and northern Argentina
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Thectocercus acuticaudatus haemorrhous
interior northeastern Brazil
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Thectocercus acuticaudatus koenigi
northeastern Colombia and northern Venezuela
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Thectocercus acuticaudatus neoxenus
Isla Margarita (off Venezuela)
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Thectocercus acuticaudatus neumanni
highlands of eastern Bolivia
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.