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Blue-headed Parrot
Pionus menstruus · Family Psittacidae
Pionus menstruus
Family Psittacidae
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- Family
- Psittacidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 266,237
- Countries and territories with records
- 23
About this species
This species has 266,237 occurrence records from 23 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Colombia (39.9%), Panama (17.9%), Peru (11.4%), Brazil (9.7%) and Ecuador (9.6%); together they account for 88.5% of the total. In Colombia, this species accounts for 0.4% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Pionus menstruus combines the genus name Pionus with the species epithet menstruus. The Warbla app catalog lists 7 species of the genus Pionus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Pionus senilis, Pionus maximiliani and Pionus chalcopterus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 324 species of the family Psittacidae. This species ranks 15th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Psittacula krameri. Its record count is 4 times the family average (66,299). The family Psittacidae belongs to the order Psittaciformes, which has 337 species in the Warbla app catalog.