The Story
On July 6, 2017, I photographed this Brown-throated Parakeet (Eupsittula pertinax) in La Macarena, Meta, Colombia. In Colombia it reaches 2,600 meters, though elsewhere it is found mostly below 1,200 meters. It lives in savannas, dry scrub, mangroves, many kinds of forest and farmland with some trees left standing. Immature birds show very little yellow. In 1948 the central part of the Serranía de la Macarena became the first national reserve in Colombia. The nearby Serranía de la Macarena is an isolated mountain range about 120 kilometers long, separated from the Eastern Andes.
I used a Canon EOS 70D and the EF400mm f/5.6L USM for this one, at 1/250 sec, f/5.6, ISO 400. IUCN lists the Brown-throated Parakeet as Least Concern with a stable population, and the botanical garden just outside La Macarena invites visitors to take part in its restoration work.
©2018 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Brown-throated Parakeet (Eupsittula pertinax) belongs to the family Psittacidae (New World and African Parrots) in the eBird/Clements taxonomy.
Source: eBird.org (opens in a new tab)
Conservation
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2021), with the population trend listed as stable. Source: IUCN Red List