The Story
This Brown-throated Parakeet (Eupsittula pertinax) settled among fresh green leaves at Caracolí Bird House, a rural birding lodge in the vereda Zuria outside Villavicencio, in Meta, Colombia, its brown face and throat showing against the green. The species eats seeds, fruits, nuts, flowers and leaves, and sometimes insects. In Colombia it usually nests between February and April. In Colombia it reaches 2,600 meters, though elsewhere it is found mostly below 1,200 meters.
I used a Canon R5 with the RF 800mm f/11 plus the RF 1.4x extender for this one, at 1/125 sec, f/16, ISO 1600, −0.5 EV. Caracolí Bird House is a public eBird hotspot, so the birds seen there go into a shared record that anyone can use.
©2026 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