Cordilleran parakeet
The Cordilleran parakeet, is a long-tailed South American species of parrot.
It is found from western Ecuador to southern Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and especially high-altitude shrubland and forest; it is also known to visit heavily degraded former forest.
- Psittacara frontatus frontatus wEcuador,wPeru
- Psittacara frontatus minor c and s Peru
It sometimes is considered conspecific with the scarlet-fronted parakeet. In fact some taxonomic authorities (including the American Ornithological Society, still consider it so.
