Red-fronted Parrotlet

The Red-fronted Parrotlet, Touit costaricensis, is a parrot in Central America in Costa Rica and Panama. It is 15cm, 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.

The Red-fronted Parrotlet is classified as Vulnerable (VU), considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.

The Red-fronted Parrotlet, Touit costaricensis, is a parrot in Central America in Costa Rica and Panama. It is 15cm, 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. More

The Red-fronted Parrotlet, Touit costaricensis, is a parrot in Central America in Costa Rica and Panama. It is 15cm, green with a short tail, red forehead, lores, and under eye, red shoulders and leading edge of underwing, and the remaining underwing coverts yellow. More

Red-fronted Parrotlet Touit costaricensis 2009 IUCN Red List Category (as evaluated by BirdLife International - the official Red List Authority for birds for IUCN): Vulnerable Justification This species is listed as Vulnerable because clearance and fragmentation of forest at middle elevations, mainly in the Central Mountains and Tilar More

Red-fronted Parrotlet Touit costaricensis = Described by: Cory (1913) Alternate common name(s): Costa Rican Parrotlet Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors Photographs No photographs are available for this species Range S. Central America; Restricted range; Costa Rica (Turrialba to Limon and Cordillera de Talamanca) and w. Panama (Chiriqui, Bocas del Toro). More

* Red-fronted Parrotlet, Touit costaricensis - sometimes included in T. More