Painted Parakeet / Bonte parkiet, Peni karuprakiki

Painted Parakeet (Pyrrhura picta)

Pictures (click on them to enlarge)
Tibiti © Brandon Jokhoe	eating nectar from Eperua falcata © Brandon Jokhoe	© Martin Reid
© Martin Reid	eats fruits Parinari campestris © Dominiek Plouvier	© Foek Chin Joe

Painted Parakeet: This parakeet can be found in flocks in the treetops in the forests of the interior and less often in forests elsewhere. In the coastal area it is seldomly seen.
On the photos by Brandon Jokhoe you can see them eating the flowers of Eperua falcata, Walaba. The tree is normally pollinated by bats and eating the nectar by parrots will not help pollination.
Dominiek Plouvier writes with another photo: 'Painted parakeet eating fruits of rode foengoe (Parinari campestris). While all parrots/ parakeets love podosiri, their diet seems very diverse, and includes also these stone hard fruits of the Chrysobalanaceae (foengoes, kwepis, anauras), maybe these are not yet ripe fruits.'
The painted Parakeet eats flowers (for the nectar) also in the video made by Dominiek Plouvier. They like the nectar of this Inga spec., just like hummingbirds do. Pollination is normally by bees.
Armida madngisa saw two Painted Parakeets eating from Trema Micrantha.

Video (click the link or the 'play'-button to see)
Video recording of a Painted Parakeet © ;	Video recording of a Painted 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:	Pyrrhura picta
Order:	Psittaciformes
Family:	Psittacidae, 27 in Suriname
Dutch:	Bonte parkiet, Peni karuprakiki
English:	Painted Parakeet
Sranan ('Surinamese'):	Peni karuprakiki / kapuweri prakiki
Guyana:
Papiamento:
Spanish (Venezuela):
Portugese (Brazil):	Tiriba-de-testa-azul
Arowak:
Carib:
French:	Conure versicolore

Observations through the year	Observations of breeding through the year

The 398 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 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 398 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 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 ).