Yellow-Chevroned Parakeet (Brotogeris chiriri)

1/2/04 Huntington Library & Gardens, San Marino, Los Angeles County, CA 

1/2/04 Huntington Library & Gardens. 

5/25/02 Feeding on seed pods of Floss Silk Tree, Los Angeles County Arboretum, Arcadia, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Yellow-Chevroned Parakeet

SPECIES: Brotogeris chiriri

FAMILY: Psittacidae (Parrots)

LIFE LIST DATE: 5/25/2002

LOCATION: Los Angeles County Arboretum, Arcadia, CA

From National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America:

HABITAT/IDENTIFYING MARKS: 8 1/2"; From southern Amazon to northern Argentina. Now outnumbers White-winged in south of California and Florida. Once considered same species, but note yellow-green body color; no white in primaries and secondaries.

From The California Parrot Project: 

http://www.californiaparrotproject.org/yellow_chevroned_parakeet.html 

The California population trend was not established in California until after the early 1970s, with great increases taking place mainly in the late 1980s and 1990s (Garrett 1997).  Numbers appear to be increasing in the San Gabriel Valley, the San Fernando Valley, and the Los Angeles Basin. This parakeet tends to be associated with cultivated date palms and Silk Floss Trees (Chorisia speciosa).