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Title
Robert Lai's Dusky Conures Gallery
Description
Description: generally green; greenish-yellow on abdomen; head greyish-brown, each feather edged dark blue; upper breast olive-green; first primaries black with blue edge; remainder green with bluish edging on ends of outer webs; tail upper side blue with green base, underside blackish; skin to very wide periophthalmic ring white; bare cere reddish-grey; bill black; iris pale yellow; feet grey.
Habitat: rain forest along rivers, marshy areas, forest remnants in humid savanna; secondary vegetation and cleared areas with isolated woodland to 750 m (2,300 ft); occasionally on edges of rain forests and sometimes in coffee plantations.
Habits: in pairs or groups of 3 to 8 birds outside breeding season, occasionally flocks of 75 to 100 birds when sufficient food available; nomadic; prefers river bank areas; roosting trees also here; seldom flies over thick forest; inconspicuous; very quiet when feeding; mostly makes sound only during flight; call similar to White-eyed Conure (Aratinga leucophthalmus), but more refined and sharper.
