white-eared parakeet

English

Noun

white-eared parakeet (plural white-eared parakeets)

1. A small parrot endemic to eastern Brazil, Pyrrhura leucotis. (The Venezuelan, grey-breasted and Pfrimer's parakeets were formerly classed as subspecies but are increasingly treated as separate species.)

Synonyms

• maroon-faced parakeet
• tiriba (possibly obsolete)