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Aratinga Jandaya Dendrocopos medius

SUN PARAKEET MIDDLE SPOTTED WOODPECKER
The Sun parakeet is the inhabitant of The Middle Spotted Woodpecker lives in
Guiana, Surinam, and northern Brazil. It Europe excepting British Isles, most of
seeks open savanna with trees, wooded Scandinavia and the Iberian Peninsula. It is
valleys, and occasionally also flooded and also found in Asia Minor and Central Asia.
secondary forests. It feeds mostly on fruits, It favours deciduous and mixed forests
seeds, shoots, and other plant matter. The from lowlands to hills, and also breeds in
pairs set their nests in cavities in palms, large parks. It often chooses either eroded
usually of the Mauritia genus. A clutch of or dry tree trunks for digging cavating its
4-6 eggs is warmed by female alone for nest. The clutch of 5-6 eggs is warmed by
about 28 days. The young leave the nest both partners.
approximately after 8 weeks. After breeding
the parrots form numerous flocks that
number up to several hundred birds.
Courtesy - Encyclopedia of Birds

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