Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur

Sitio realizado por aficionados a la observación de aves desde 10 de enero 2006

Ñanday - Aratinga nenday

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 logovoz © Cora Rimoldi    
Adult
Ñanday/Nenday Parakeet© J. Simón Tagtachian
Green with black hood, light blue breast
Ñanday/Nenday Parakeet© Carlos González Ledo
Black eyering. Dark brown iris. Black bill
Ñanday/Nenday Parakeet© Gustavo F. Brahamian
Red thighs. Flight feathers and tips of tail feathers blue
Ñanday/Nenday Parakeet© J. Simón Tagtachian
Ñanday/Nenday Parakeet© J. Simón Tagtachian
Ñanday/Nenday Parakeet© J. Simón Tagtachian
Ñanday/Nenday Parakeet© J. Simón Tagtachian
Ñanday/Black-hooded Parakeet© J. Simón Tagtachian
Ñanday/Black-hooded Parakeet© Victoria Mansilla
Ñanday/Nenday Parakeet© Claudia y Diego Bastías
In groups
Breeding
Ñanday/Nenday Parakeet© 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. Ñanday/Nenday Parakeet© 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.
Ñanday/Nenday Parakeet© J. Simón Tagtachian Ñanday/Nenday Parakeet© José Luis Merlo
Ñanday/Nenday Parakeet© J. Simón Tagtachian Ñanday/Nenday Parakeet© J. Simón Tagtachian
Amonf other preferences: other seeds, flowers, fruits, bark, buds and earth, which is believed to be used for desintoxication
Ñanday/Nenday Parakeet© Sergio CusanoArundo donax Ñanday/Nenday Parakeet© Gustavo F. Brahamian
Silk floss tree Chorisia speciosa
Ñanday/Nenday Parakeet© Sergio Cusano
White mulberry Morus alba
ñanday SAC 10 9 16_1© Sergio Cusano
Chinese wisteria Wisteria sinensis
Ñanday/Black-hooded Parakeet© Sergio Cusano
Tipu tree Tipuana tipu
Ñanday/Black-hooded Parakeet© Roberto Ares
Cockspur tree Erythrina crista-galli
Ñanday/Nanday Parakeet© J. Simón Tagtachian
Earth
Ñanday/Nenday Parakeet© Claudia Mon
Bark
Ñanday/Nenday Parakeet© Nicolás Giorgio
Ball moss Tillandsia recurvata
Ñanday/Nenday Parakeet© Hugo Aguilar
Grassess
Ñanday/Nenday Parakeet© Gustavo F. Brahamian
Loquat Eriobotrya japonica
 
More photographic records since January 2013