The dusk racket in Coco is mostly these. A flock of thirty comes over the roof low and fast, every bird shouting, banks together and drops into a tree, and the tree keeps shouting.
Where you’ll see it
Everywhere in town and across the dry forest, in flocks, at first and last light. Roosting trees fill with them at dusk.
What to know
Small, green, with a band of orange above the beak and a blue crown. They eat seeds, fruit and flowers and they dig their nest chambers into the big brown termite nests you see on tree trunks, which is a neat arrangement for both. They are abundant and not threatened, which makes them a good bird to simply enjoy. The bigger, slower pairs with the deeper voice are yellow-naped parrots, and those are the ones in trouble.
