Paroti ine musoro mutema-bellied

KUONA

Short-tailed parrot ine muviri kureba kusvika 24 cm uye huremu hunosvika 170 g. Muviri unodonhedzwa pasi, wakasimba. Mapapiro, nape nemuswe zvine huswa hwakasvibira. Chipfuva nedumbu zvichena, zvine “cap” nhema mumusoro. Kubva pamuromo pasi pemaziso kusvika kuseri kwemusoro, minhenga ine ruvara rweyero-chena. Makumbo ezasi uye minhenga yemuswe yemukati yakatsvuka. Muromo wakaita grey-black, periorbital mhete haina kushama, dema-grey. Meso ane orenji, makumbo ari grey. Iko hakuna dimorphism yepabonde. Vana vechidiki vane minhenga yeyero yakapindirana pachipfuva nedumbu, uye yegirini pazvidya. Maziso akasvibira. Chimwe chezvinhu zvinonakidza zveshiri idzi inzvimbo yemuviri wadzo - inenge yakamira, izvo zvinopa shiri kutaridzika kunonakidza. Kune 2 subspecies inosiyana kubva kune imwe neimwe mumavara emhando. Hupenyu hunotarisirwa makore 25 - 40.

HABITAT UYE HUPENYU MUZVISIKWA

Inogara kumabvazuva kweEcuador, kumaodzanyemba kweColombia, kuchamhembe kwakadziva kumabvazuva kwePeru, kuchamhembe kweBrazil neGuyana. Kuda masango anonaya mvura uye savanna. Nekuda kwekuderedzwa kwenzvimbo dzekugara dziri panjodzi. Vanodya pambeu yemiti yakasiyana-siyana, pulp yemichero, maruva uye miriwo. Dzimwe nguva zvipembenene zvinosanganisirwa mukudya uye zvinokuvadza zvirimwa zvekurima. Kazhinji inowanikwa vaviri vaviri, mapoka madiki anosvika makumi matatu. 

KUSVIRA

Nguva yekugara muGuyana muna Zvita - Kukadzi, muVenezuela - Kubvumbi, muColombia - Kubvumbi, Chivabvu, muSuriname - Gumiguru naNovember. Dzinogara mumakomba. Clutch yemazai 2-4 inobatwa chete nehadzi. Iyo incubation nguva ndeye mazuva makumi maviri nemashanu. Vana vanosiya dendere pazera remavhiki gumi uye vanopiwa zvokudya nevabereki vawo kwemavhiki mashoma.