Guaiabero Bolbopsittacus lunulatus Scientific name definitions

15 cm; 62–77 g. Green above , yellowish green below and on rump and uppertail-coverts; bill bluish grey; face and throat pale blue; narrow pale blue collar; bend of wing blue; pale yellow band across undersides of secondaries. Female has pale blue only on throat, lores and cheeks; has yellow collar and yellowish rump, both with small but noticeable black crescent markings. Immature like female, bill paler. Races differ mainly in general tone of coloration, and in tone and extent of blue on head and narrow collar.

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Fig seeds and fruit , fruits of vines and cultivated trees including guava, from which its name derives; forages along vines and limbs of trees. Generally found feeding below 1000 m.

Calls include high-pitched short thin whistles, given either singly or in short series, such as “tsee” or “tse-tsee-tseet”. In the latter case, sounds like a short song strophe of a passerine.