Brown-throated Parakeet / Maïsparkiet, Krerekrere

Brown-throated Parakeet (Eupsittula pertinax)

Pictures (click on them to enlarge)
© Carla Out	© John S. Dunning	© Foek Chin Joe
© Foek Chin Joe	© Francita Rijhiner	© Erlan Sleur
© Jean-Louis Rousselle	© Harry Valk	© Martin Reid
© Hans Majong	© Raoul Ribot	a flower with the same name, krere krere (Caesalpinia) © Rutger Lem
© Dominiek Plouvier	© Dominiek Plouvier	Aruba © Jan Hein Ribot

Brown-throated Parakeet: This parakeet eats seeds and flowers and fruit, but it is especially fond of young corn. Its surinamese (and dutch) name translates as corn parakeet. They fly around in noisy groups, mostly small ones with 5 to 10 birds, but sometimes more then 100 are seen together. Nests are found all through the year.
The Dutch Antilles, Aruba (on the last photo), Curaçao and Bonaire have their own subspecies, all a bit different in color. The one from Curaçao is probably introduced on St. Thomas and Puerto Rico.
The first photo was made by Carla Out in Bigi Pan, the second one by J.S. Dunning at Galibi, Suriname in1978. Then two pictures of a Brown-throated parakeet at a nesting site, made by Foek Chin Joe at Weg naar Zee in July 2007: the birds like to excavate a termite nest in a tree. Like on the picture made by Francita Rijhiner in September 2010. Then a picture by Erlan Sleur of conspiciously yellow parakeets, seen in the North of Paramaribo in 2013 (probably young birds). Jean-Louis Rousselle saw a bird at Weg naar Zee in April 2013. It eats the ripe berries of the Black Sage (Cordia curassavica meaning:'from Curacao'), a little brush from the coastal area, used as a medicinal plant also(identification by Pieter Teunissen). The last picture was made on Aruba by Ribot.
Dominiek Plouvier made a video of two Brown-throated Parakeets on a termite hill.

Video (click the link or the 'play'-button to see)
Video recording of a Brown-throated Parakeet © ;

Distribution

Each small square indicates the observation of at least one (group) of these birds, the medium ones at least four observations on different days and the largest ones ten or more. The color of each square indicates: blue for coastal area, yellow for savanna and red for rainforest.
Not all places in Suriname have been equally often visited by birders, so the distribution of the squares gives an indication of the whereabouts of the birds, but also of the birders. Some places deep in the south have no reported bird observations, by experienced birders, within 60 kilometer.

Abundance in different areas
coastal zone (blue dots on the map) :
northern savannas (yellow dots (in the north)) :
rainforest under 400 m (red dots) :
rainforest above 400 m (red dots) :
Sipaliwini savanna (yellow dots (in the south)) :
A blank is shown if not convincingly reported in the zone. Data interpreted by Arie Spaans, Otte Ottema and Jan Hein Ribot.

Names
Scientific name:	Eupsittula pertinax
Order:	Psittaciformes
Family:	Psittacidae, 27 in Suriname
Dutch:	Maïsparkiet, Krerekrere
English:	Brown-throated Parakeet
Sranan ('Surinamese'):	Karuprakiki, krerekrere
Guyana:
Papiamento:	Prikichi
Spanish (Venezuela):	Perico cara sucia
Portugese (Brazil):	Perequito-de-bochecha-parda
Arowak:	Hiebiebieroe
Carib:	Kresekoe
French:	Conure cuivrée

Observations through the year	Observations of breeding through the year

The 615 reported observations of this bird in Suriname, mainly for the last 50 years up to 2018, have been grouped by month. More birds on one day are counted as one observation. Of course, if the graph should depict the total number of birds seen, the differences between the months could be much more pronounced.	The 10 reported breeding observations of this bird in Suriname. Most observations are about nest with eggs, some about fledglings, or feeding at a nest or the building of a nest. Of the about 5000 nests and eggs found for all species together, about 1/3 comes from the egg collection of Penard between 1896 and 1905. For some reason most collecting then was done in the first half of each year, so the shown distribution does not necessarily reflect the actual breeding preferences. The main dry season in Suriname is reckoned to be from half August to the end of November, the main wet season from half April to half August, but the the timing of begin and end does vary from year to year. Around March a second dry season often occurs.

Observations through the year

Observations of breeding through the year

The 615 reported observations of this bird in Suriname, mainly for the last 50 years up to 2018, have been grouped by month. More birds on one day are counted as one observation. Of course, if the graph should depict the total number of birds seen, the differences between the months could be much more pronounced.

The 10 reported breeding observations of this bird in Suriname. Most observations are about nest with eggs, some about fledglings, or feeding at a nest or the building of a nest.

Of the about 5000 nests and eggs found for all species together, about 1/3 comes from the egg collection of Penard between 1896 and 1905. For some reason most collecting then was done in the first half of each year, so the shown distribution does not necessarily reflect the actual breeding preferences.
The main dry season in Suriname is reckoned to be from half August to the end of November, the main wet season from half April to half August, but the the timing of begin and end does vary from year to year. Around March a second dry season often occurs.

Last update: September 2024 by Jan Hein Ribot. Please mail your comments, photos to: jhribot ( residing at ) gmail (point!) com.
observations can be uploaded to suriname.observation.org or ebird.org ).