Burrowing Parrot

• The colony at El Cóndor, on the coast of Río Negro, is the largest parrot colony in the world: more than 35,000 nests dug along twelve kilometres of sandstone cliff.
• It digs its own tunnels with bill and feet, some of them more than three metres deep, and pairs return to the same burrow year after year, extending it gradually.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Patagonian steppe and arid scrub with sandstone or limestone cliffs in which to dig nest burrows

Sexual maturity

3 years

Gestation / incubation

25 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

3 eggs

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanoliseus_patagonus

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.