Slaty-headed Parakeet

How to identify

Field marks

1. Head dark gray, tinged pale blue near neck
2. Upper mandible red-orange, lower mandible pale yellow
3. Adult body mostly green
4. Tail green at base, grading to dark blue, with yellow tip

Male, female and young

Males have dark chestnut patches on the inner wing coverts, which females lack; males have longer central tail feathers.

Where and when it's recorded

Slaty-headed Parakeet has been recorded at 63 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 5 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. SattalIndia1,516 records
2. Wildlife Institute of IndiaIndia596 records
3. PangotIndia397 records

Countries and regions with the most records

IndiaNepalPakistanBhutanChina

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The slaty-headed parakeet (Psittacula himalayana) is the only psittacid species to exhibit altitudinal migration. The species' range extends from Pakistan, to Western Himalayas in India through Nepal and Bhutan and up to the Eastern Himalayas in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. They descend to the valleys in winter, approximately during the last week of October.

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