Scarlet-shouldered parrotlet

Scarlet-shouldered parrotlet
At a clay lick in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Superfamily: Psittacoidea
Family: Psittacidae
Subfamily: Arinae
Genus: Touit
Species: T. huetii
Binomial name
Touit huetii
(Temminck, 1830)

The scarlet-shouldered parrotlet (Touit huetii) is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family.

It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

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