This parakeet occurs in the western Amazon. Adults have a reddish head and a dark breast marked with white. A survey in Peru’s Tapiche–Blanco region also recorded occasional daytime feeding in the forest canopy.
PeruAves describes the adult with a rose-red head, a dusky neck and upper breast marked with whitish scales, a black bill, a red tail and central belly, and blue wings. The juvenile has a reddish forehead while the rest of its head is dusky.
In October 2014, O’Shea and colleagues surveyed birds at three camps in Peru’s Tapiche–Blanco region. Their report says that small numbers of parrots including this species were sometimes found feeding in the canopy of terra firme, non-flooded forest during the middle of the day. It does not identify the food or a subspecies.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.