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Amazon parrot

Index Amazon parrot

Amazon parrot is the common name for a parrot of the genus Amazona. [1]

65 relations: Black-billed amazon, Blue-cheeked amazon, Blue-winged amazon, Caribbean, CITES, Companion parrot, Cuban amazon, Diademed amazon, Festive amazon, Fruit, Genus, George Edwards (naturalist), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Grey parrot, Guadeloupe, Guadeloupe amazon, Hispaniolan amazon, Hypothetical species, Imperial amazon, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Kawall's amazon, Lilac-crowned parrot, Lilacine amazon, Macaw, Martinique, Martinique amazon, Mexico, Mitochondrial DNA, Monotypic taxon, New World, Northern mealy amazon, Nut (fruit), Orange-winged amazon, Panama amazon, Parrot, Pet, Phylogenetics, Pionus, Puerto Rican amazon, Red-browed amazon, Red-crowned amazon, Red-lored amazon, Red-necked amazon, Red-spectacled amazon, Red-tailed amazon, René Lesson, Saint Lucia amazon, Saint Vincent amazon, Scaly-naped amazon, Short-tailed parrot, ..., South America, Southern mealy amazon, Taxonomy (biology), Tres Marías amazon, Tucumán amazon, Turquoise-fronted amazon, Vinaceous-breasted amazon, White-fronted amazon, Yellow-billed amazon, Yellow-crowned amazon, Yellow-faced parrot, Yellow-headed amazon, Yellow-naped amazon, Yellow-shouldered amazon, Yucatan amazon. Expand index (15 more) »

Black-billed amazon

The black-billed amazon (Amazona agilis) is a parrot endemic to Jamaica.

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Blue-cheeked amazon

The blue-cheeked amazon (Amazona dufresniana), also known as blue-cheeked parrot or Dufresne's amazon, is a parrot found in northeast South America in eastern Venezuela, the Guianas and possibly far northern Brazil.

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Blue-winged amazon

The blue-winged amazon (Amazona gomezgarzai) is a proposed Central American species of parrot living in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.

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CITES

CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals.

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Companion parrot

A companion parrot is a parrot kept as a pet that interacts abundantly with their human counterpart.

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Cuban amazon

The Cuban amazon (Amazona leucocephala) also known as Cuban parrot or the rose-throated parrot, is a medium-sized mainly green parrot found in woodlands and dry forests of Cuba, the Bahamas and Cayman Islands in the Caribbean.

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Diademed amazon

The diademed amazon (Amazona diadema) is a parrot in the family Psittacidae formerly considered conspecific with the red-lored amazon (Amazona autumnalia).

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Festive amazon

The festive amazon (Amazona festiva), also known as the festive parrot, is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae.

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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George Edwards (naturalist)

George Edwards (3 April 1694 – 23 July 1773) was an English naturalist and ornithologist, known as the "father of British ornithology".

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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopédiste.

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Grey parrot

The grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus), also known as the Congo grey parrot or African grey parrot, is an Old World parrot in the family Psittacidae.

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Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe (Antillean Creole: Gwadloup) is an insular region of France located in the Leeward Islands, part of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.

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Guadeloupe amazon

The Guadeloupe amazon or Guadeloupe parrot (Amazona violacea) is a hypothetical extinct species of parrot that is thought to have been endemic to the Lesser Antillean island region of Guadeloupe.

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Hispaniolan amazon

The Hispaniolan amazon or Hispaniolan parrot (Amazona ventralis) is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae.

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Hypothetical species

Several extinct species have been postulated, but owing to a lack of evidence they can only be regarded as hypothetical extinct species.

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Imperial amazon

The imperial amazon (Amazona imperialis) or Dominican amazon, also known as the sisserou, is a parrot found only on the Caribbean island of Dominica.

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Johann Friedrich Gmelin

Johann Friedrich Gmelin (8 August 1748 – 1 November 1804) was a German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist.

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Kawall's amazon

Kawall's amazon (Amazona kawalli), also known as the white-faced amazon, white-cheeked amazon or Kawall's parrot, is a relatively large species of parrot in the family Psittacidae.

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Lilac-crowned parrot

The lilac-crowned parrot (Amazona finschi) is a parrot endemic to the Pacific slopes of Mexico.

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Lilacine amazon

The lilacine amazon (Amazona lilacina), also known as the Ecuadorian red-lored amazon, is an amazon parrot native to Ecuador in South America.The lilacine amazon is generally smaller than its related species, with a black beak and more subdued coloring.

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Macaw

Macaws are long-tailed, often colorful New World parrots.

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Martinique

Martinique is an insular region of France located in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of and a population of 385,551 inhabitants as of January 2013.

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Martinique amazon

The Martinique amazon (Amazona martinicana) is a hypothetical extinct species of Caribbean parrot in the family Psittacidae.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Mitochondrial DNA

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA or mDNA) is the DNA located in mitochondria, cellular organelles within eukaryotic cells that convert chemical energy from food into a form that cells can use, adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

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Monotypic taxon

In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.

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New World

The New World is one of the names used for the majority of Earth's Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas (including nearby islands such as those of the Caribbean and Bermuda).

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Northern mealy amazon

The northern mealy amazon or northern mealy parrot (Amazona guatemalae) is among the largest parrots in the genus Amazona, the amazon parrots.

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Nut (fruit)

A nut is a fruit composed of an inedible hard shell and a seed, which is generally edible.

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Orange-winged amazon

The orange-winged amazon (Amazona amazonica), also known locally as orange-winged parrot and loro guaro, is a large amazon parrot.

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Panama amazon

The Panama amazon, also known as the Panama yellow-headed amazon, (Amazona ochrocephala panamensis) is a subspecies of the yellow-crowned amazon, and is endemic to Panama (including the Pearl Islands and Coiba) and northwest Colombia.

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Parrot

Parrots, also known as psittacines, are birds of the roughly 393 species in 92 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions.

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Pet

A pet or companion animal is an animal kept primarily for a person's company, protection, or entertainment rather than as a working animal, livestock, or laboratory animal.

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Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics (Greek: φυλή, φῦλον – phylé, phylon.

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Pionus

Pionus is a genus of medium-sized parrots native to Mexico, and Central and South America.

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Puerto Rican amazon

The Puerto Rican amazon (Amazona vittata), also known as the Puerto Rican parrot or iguaca, is the only extant bird endemic to the archipelago of Puerto Rico belonging to the Neotropical genus Amazona.

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Red-browed amazon

The red-browed amazon (Amazona rhodocorytha) is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae.

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Red-crowned amazon

The red-crowned amazon, (Amazona viridigenalis) also known as red-crowned parrot, green-cheeked amazon, or Mexican red-headed parrot, is a highly social, endangered amazon parrot native to northeastern Mexico.

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Red-lored amazon

The red-lored amazon or red-lored parrot (Amazona autumnalis) is a species of amazon parrot, native to tropical regions of the Americas, from eastern Mexico south to Ecuador where it occurs in humid evergreen to semi-deciduous forests up to 1,100 m altitude.

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Red-necked amazon

The red-necked amazon (Amazona arausiaca), also known as the red-necked parrot, Dominican blue-faced amazon, lesser Dominican amazon, and Jaco parrot, is an amazon parrot endemic to Dominica.

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Red-spectacled amazon

The red-spectacled amazon (Amazona pretrei) is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae.

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Red-tailed amazon

The red-tailed amazon (Amazona brasiliensis), also known as the red-tailed parrot, is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae.

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René Lesson

René Primevère Lesson (20 March 1794 – 28 April 1849) was a French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist.

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Saint Lucia amazon

The Saint Lucia amazon (Amazona versicolor) also known as the Saint Lucia parrot is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae.

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Saint Vincent amazon

The Saint Vincent amazon (Amazona guildingii) also known as Saint Vincent parrot, is a large, approximately 40 cm long, multi-colored amazon parrot with a yellowish white, blue and green head, greenish-bronze upperparts plumage, and violet blue-green wings.

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Scaly-naped amazon

The scaly-naped amazon or scaly-naped parrot (Amazona mercenarius) is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae.

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Short-tailed parrot

The short-tailed parrot (Graydidascalus brachyurus) is the only species of the genus Graydidascalus.

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South America

South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Southern mealy amazon

The southern mealy amazon or southern mealy parrot (Amazona farinosa) is among the largest parrot in the genus Amazona, the amazon parrots.

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Taxonomy (biology)

Taxonomy is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics.

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Tres Marías amazon

The Tres Marías amazon (Amazona oratrix tresmariae) is a parrot in the family Psittacidae.

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Tucumán amazon

The Tucumán amazon (Amazona tucumana), also known as the alder amazon, is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae.

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Turquoise-fronted amazon

The turquoise-fronted amazon (Amazona aestiva), also called the turquoise-fronted parrot, the blue-fronted amazon and the blue-fronted parrot, is a South American species of amazon parrot and one of the most common amazon parrots kept in captivity as a pet or companion parrot.

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Vinaceous-breasted amazon

The vinaceous-breasted amazon (Amazona vinacea) is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae.

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White-fronted amazon

The white-fronted amazon (Amazona albifrons) also known as the white-fronted parrot, or by the adopted slang term spectacled amazon parrot, is a Central American species of parrot.

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Yellow-billed amazon

The yellow-billed amazon, also called the Jamaican amazon, (Amazona collaria) is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae.

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Yellow-crowned amazon

The yellow-crowned amazon or yellow-crowned parrot (Amazona ochrocephala) is a species of parrot native to tropical South America and Panama.

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Yellow-faced parrot

The yellow-faced parrot (Alipiopsitta xanthops), formerly also known as the yellow-faced amazon, is the only species of the genus Alipiopsitta.

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Yellow-headed amazon

The yellow-headed amazon (Amazona oratrix), also known as the yellow-headed parrot and double yellow-headed amazon, is an endangered amazon parrot of Mexico and northern Central America.

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Yellow-naped amazon

The yellow-naped amazon or yellow-naped parrot (Amazona auropalliata) is an amazon parrot sometimes considered to be a subspecies of yellow-crowned amazon, Amazona ochrocephala (Gmelin, 1788).

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Yellow-shouldered amazon

The yellow-shouldered amazon (Amazona barbadensis) also known as yellow-shouldered parrot is a parrot of the genus Amazona that is found in the arid areas of northern Venezuela, the Venezuelan islands of Margarita and La Blanquilla, and the island of Bonaire (Caribbean Netherlands).

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Yucatan amazon

The Yucatan amazon (Amazona xantholora), also known as the yellow-lored amazon, Yucatan parrot or yellow-lored parrot is a species of amazon parrot in the family Psittacidae.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_parrot

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