Check Out Brotogeris World!

Photo courtesy of Brotogeris World

If you haven't already found her web site, check out Brotogeris World! Bird breeder Luana is devoted to the continuation of members of this South American Brotogeris genus. Members of the Brotogeris family that are raised here, for those who are interested in providing a forever home for one of these sweet birds, are:

• Grey-cheeked parakeet
• Orange-chinned parakeet
• Yellow-chevroned parakeet (formerly canary-winged parakeet)
• White-winged parakeet
• Colbalt-winged parakeet
• Golden-winged parakeet

The Golden-Winged Parakeet (Brotogeris chrysopterus)

The Golden-winged Parakeet  also known as a golden-wing     German: Braunkinnsittich

Again, with these Brotogeris profiles, I don't plan on recreating information on this cousin of the grey cheek, but thought I would provide links to information already available. Check out these pages on the web which include photos, habitat maps, videos, sound recordings, diet and other information regarding these parakeets.  

• Digitalmorphology of a golden wing
• Distribution and breeding
• Distribution & Breeding Report - Suriname
• GW Stamp
• IBC Collection
• IUCN Species list - Birdlife International
• Photos: Google | Flickr: 1 | 2
• Species profile - Avianweb
• Species profile - Birdforum
• Species profile - Lexicon of Parrots
• Species profile - Papageien.org
• Species profile 
• Species Profile - Wikipedia
• Species Profile, Care & Status in the Wild - World Parrot Trust
• Species Profile - Zeco's page
• Species Profile & photo
• Videos: YouTube 
• Xeno-canto's species overview (includes photos and sound recordings of flock calls)

Photos courtesy of Shady Pines Aviary

Publications mentioning Golden Wings:

• Cotton, Peter A. "The Behavior and Interactions of Birds Visiting Erythrina fusca Flowers in the Colombian Amazon," Biotropica, 15 Mar 2006, 33(4): 662-669 (Wiley Interscience).
• Rhymer, Judith M. and Daniel Simberloff. "Extinction by Hybridization and Introgression," Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Nov. 1996, 27: 83-109 (Annual Reviews).
• Thiollay, Jean-Marc and Jullien, Mathilde. "Flocking behaviour of foraging birds in a neotropical rain forest and the antipredator defense hypothesis," Ibis, 28 Jun 2008, 3(140): 382-394 (Wiley Interscience).
• Vicentini, Alberto and Fischer, Erich A. "Pollination of Moronobea coccinea (Clusiaceae) by the Golden-Winged Parakeet in the Central Amazon," Biotropica, 1999, 31(4): 692-696 (JSTOR).