Image of Red-masked Parakeet

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Saw these parrots that are common to South Pasadena (which is a separate city from Pasadena!) in the Brazilian pepper trees that line El Centro Street in South Pasadena. They are unusual in that they have a white ring around each eye - when I looked at dozens of pictures of parrot species, I could not find this particular parrot. It is reported that there are 26 varieties of parrots living in the Pasadena area, but they continue to go farther afield - I saw a flock of wild parrots in the parking lot at the Gene Autry Museum last summer. Couldn't change the date - I saw these parrots in March, 2013.