Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Psittaciformes > Psittacidae > Touit > Touit purpuratusTouit purpuratus (Sapphire-rumped Parrotlet)Synonyms: Psittacus purpuratus; Touit purpurata The sapphire-rumped parrotlet (Touit purpuratus) is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae.It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 5.58185 EDGE Score: 1.88432 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 60 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Frugivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 100 % | | Forages - Canopy [2] | 40 % | | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 60 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 4 | | Snout to Vent Length [4] | 7 inches (17 cm) |
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Species |
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Caqueta moist forests |
Brazil, Columbia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Guianan Freshwater swamp forests |
Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Guianan Highlands moist forests |
Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, Colombia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Guianan moist forests |
Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Venezuela |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Gurupa varzea |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Iquitos varzea |
Brazil, Peru, Bolivia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Japurá-Solimoes-Negro moist forests |
Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Madeira-Tapajós moist forests |
Brazil, Bolivia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Marajó varzea |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Monte Alegre varzea |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Napo moist forests |
Colombia, Venezuela, Peru |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Negro-Branco moist forests |
Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Pantepuis |
Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Purus varzea |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Purus-Madeira moist forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Solimões-Japurá moist forest |
Brazil, Colombia, Peru |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Tapajós-Xingu moist forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Tocantins/Pindare moist forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Uatuma-Trombetas moist forests |
Brazil, Guyana, Suriname |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1PARROT CLAYLICKS: DISTRIBUTION, PATTERNS OF USE AND ECOLOGICAL CORRELATES FROM A PARROT ASSEMBLAGE IN SOUTHEASTERN PERU, ALAN TRISTRAM KENNETH LEE, dissertation for DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, Manchester Metropolitan University, November 2010 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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