Olive-throated Parakeet

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Olive-throated Parakeet
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Genus: Aratinga
Species: A. nana
Binomial name
Aratinga nana
(Vigors, 1830)

The Olive-throated Parakeet (Aratinga nana) is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family. It is found in Belize, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

The subspecies astec has been regarded as separate species Aztec Parakeet.

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