The red-fronted parrotlet (''Touit costaricensis'') is a parrot in Central America in Costa Rica and Panama. It is 15 cm, green with a short tail, red forehead, lores, and under eye, red shoulders and leading edge of underwing, and the remaining underwing coverts yellow. Edges of tail also yellowish. Usually found in wet cool forest from 500-1000m in wet season, up to 3000m in early dry season and occasionally seen down to sea level. Small flocks, mostly family groups under 6 birds. The red-fronted parrotlet is, especially in older sources like ITIS, often included with the

blue-fronted parrotlet The blue-fronted parrotlet (''Touit dilectissimus'') is also known as the red-winged parrotlet (but see below). It is a parrot in N. South America from E. Panama down the west coastal Andes to Peru, with a second population around and south of La ...

(''T. dilectissimus'') under the name

red-winged parrotlet The blue-fronted parrotlet (''Touit dilectissimus'') is also known as the red-winged parrotlet (but see below). It is a parrot in N. South America from E. Panama down the west coastal Andes to Peru, with a second population around and south of L ...

. Most modern authors consider them two species however.

References

*Juniper & Parr (1998) ''Parrots: A Guide to Parrots of the World''; .

External links

BirdLife Species Factsheet.
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