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title: "Green Parakeet"
description: "Psittacara holochlorus — Vogels. The green parakeet (Psittacara holochlorus), green conure, or Mexican green conure is a New World parrot."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/green-parakeet
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Green Parakeet

> Psittacara holochlorus — Vogels. The green parakeet (Psittacara holochlorus), green conure, or Mexican green conure is a New World parrot.

- Scientific name: *Psittacara holochlorus*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 2944
- iNaturalist taxon: [979922](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/979922)

## Names

- en: Green Parakeet
- de: Grünsittich
- es: Perico Mexicano
- fr: Conure verte

## Countries with the most observations

MX (1764), US (805), HN (61), NI (18), SV (5)

## Summary

The green parakeet (Psittacara holochlorus), green conure, or Mexican green conure is a New World parrot. As defined by the International Ornithological Committee (IOC), it is native to Mexico and southern Texas in the Rio Grande Valley.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_parakeet

## Photo

![Green Parakeet](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/green-parakeet/medium.jpg)

Photo: Alan Weakley · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/205664315

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/green-parakeet?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).