Order: Psittaciformes - Family: Psittacidae Habitat: Woods Previously Black-hooded Parakeet and Nandayus nenday

Parakeet native to the Chaco region. Other parrots and parakeets were released in Buenos Aires due to confiscation and established in the area of buenos Aires.

All records since January 2014

Sounds
© Diego Caiafa	© Cora Rimoldi

Adult
© J. Simón Tagtachian Green with black hood, light blue breast © Carlos González Ledo Black eyering. Dark brown iris. Black bill © Gustavo F. Brahamian Red thighs. Flight feathers and tips of tail feathers blue © J. Simón Tagtachian © J. Simón Tagtachian © J. Simón Tagtachian © J. Simón Tagtachian
© J. Simón Tagtachian © Victoria Mansilla © Claudia y Diego Bastías In groups

Breeding
© J. Simón Tagtachian Nests in cavities. We found this bird investingating the woodpecker's nest., but we do not know what turned out. We have very little information about the reproduction of this psittacid in the reserve. In 2017 for the first time we saw an adult feeding a fledgeling. © Sergio Piazza

Diet
Undoubtedly its favourite food are the seeds of the white cedar Melia azedarach. Always in groups they settle in a tree to feed. The toe arrangement, two oriented backwards and the other two forwards, gives a good grip, which helps manipulate food easily. Unlike Monk Parakeets, Nenday Parakeets have never been seen eating "chunk food" from the foodstands.
© J. Simón Tagtachian	© José Luis Merlo
© J. Simón Tagtachian	© J. Simón Tagtachian
Amonf other preferences: other seeds, flowers, fruits, bark, buds and earth, which is believed to be used for desintoxication
© Sergio CusanoArundo donax	© Gustavo F. Brahamian Silk floss tree Chorisia speciosa
© Sergio Cusano White mulberry Morus alba	© Sergio Cusano Chinese wisteria Wisteria sinensis
© Sergio Cusano Tipu tree Tipuana tipu	© Roberto Ares Cockspur tree Erythrina crista-galli
© J. Simón Tagtachian Earth	© Claudia Mon Bark
© Nicolás Giorgio Ball moss Tillandsia recurvata	© Hugo Aguilar Grassess
© Gustavo F. Brahamian Loquat Eriobotrya japonica

More photographic records since January 2013