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Nanday Black-hooded Parakeet Parrot

Black-hooded Parakeet
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Psittaciformes Family: Psittacidae Genus: Nandayus Species: N. nenday
Binomial name
Nandayus nenday (Vieillot, 1823)

The Black-hooded Parakeet (Nandayus nenday) is also known as the Nanday Parakeet or Nanday Conure. The bird is native to South America from southeast Bolivia to southwest Brazil, central Paraguay and northern Argentina. Caged birds have been released in some areas and the birds have established self sustaining populations in the Los Angeles, California and Miami, Florida areas of the United States.

The bird is 32-37 cm in length, and is mostly green in color. Its most distinguishing characteristic is its black facial mask and beak. It also shows black trailing flight feathers on its wings and has a long tail edged at the end in blue.

The bird feed on seeds, fruit, palm nuts, berries, flowers and buds. Feral birds will also come to bird feeders. Wild birds primarily use scrub forest and forest clearings around settlements. It frequents open savannah, pastures and stockyards in South America where it is considered a pest in some areas.

Black-hooded Parakeets usually find holes in trees to nest in. It lays 3-4 eggs. After raising its young, all birds will form rather large communal roosts until the next breeding season.

Fearing the birds may escape and become feral agricultural pests, the state of Tennessee bans the keeping of Black-hooded Parakeets as well as Monk Parakeets.

References

• BirdLife International (2004). Nandayus nenday. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
• "National Geographic" Field Guide to the Birds of North America ISBN 0-7922-6877-6
• Handbook of the Birds of the World Vol 4, Josep del Hoyo editor, ISBN 84-87334-22-9
• "National Audubon Society" The Sibley Guide to Birds, by David Allen Sibley, ISBN 0-679-45122-6

External links

• Florida Breeding Bird Atlas: Black-hooded Parakeet
• Nanday Conure