A Red-fan parrot showing off its magnificent neck feathers

 

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 The Red-fan parrot (Deroptyus accipitrinus),also known as the hawk-headed parrot, is a New World parrot native to the Amazon Rainforest. It can be found in Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Suriname, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana and some parts of northeast Peru. It is the only member of the genus Deroptyus. trees and stumps. Two to three eggs are normally laid, hatching after approximately 26 days. The young start to fledge in the wild at approximately 10 weeks old. Only two nests have been examined in the wild, both had one chick.

It is not considered threatened, but is listed on CITES Appendix II (as are most parrots not listed on Appendix I)

The red-fan parrot was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. He placed it with all the other parrots in the genus Psittacus and coined the binomial name Psittacus accipitrinus. Linnaeus based his description on the "hawk-headed parrot" that had been described and illustrated in 1751 by the English naturalist George Edwards in the fourth volume of his A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. Linnaeus mistakenly specified the type locality as India. It was redesignated as Cayenne in French Guiana by Carl Hellmayr in 1905. The red-fan parrot is now the only species placed in the genus Deroptyus that was introduced in 1832 by the German naturalist Johann Wagler. Two subspecies are recognised:

D. a. accipitrinus (Linnaeus, 1758) – southeast Colombia to northeast Peru, north Brazil and the Guianas

D. a. fuscifrons Hellmayr, 1905 – central Brazil south of the Amazon