The Story
Two Spectacled Parrotlets sat side by side on a post at Finca Ecoturística San Javier, in the vereda Chucuní near Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia. In the Spectacled Parrotlet (Forpus conspicillatus), the male’s brighter color and his calls help attract a female, and pairs nest in tree cavities or similar spots. They eat seeds, nuts, berries and fruit, and occasionally small insects. The species is not found above about 1,600 meters. IUCN lists it as Least Concern.
I used a Canon R5 with the RF 800mm f/11 for this one, at 1/180 sec, f/11, ISO 800. Finca San Javier began as a pig farm in 1997 and turned to ecotourism in 2017, and today it offers guided birding and aims to help conserve the tropical dry forest around it.
©2021 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Spectacled Parrotlet (Forpus conspicillatus) 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 decreasing. Source: IUCN Red List