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Cuban amazon

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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. [1]

56 relations: Abaco Islands, Acklins and Crooked Islands, Amazon parrot, Archaeology, Arecaceae, Aviculture, Bahamian pineyards, Caribbean, Carl Linnaeus, Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands, Charles B. Cory, CITES, Cuba, Egg incubation, Florida, Fossil, Frank Knight (artist), Fruit, Genetics, Grand Cayman, Grand Turk Island, Habitat destruction, Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Inagua, International parrot trade, Iris (anatomy), Isla de la Juventud, IUCN Red List, James L. Peters, Limestone, Little Cayman, Little Inagua, Local extinction, Morphology (biology), Near-threatened species, Neontology, New Providence, Outram Bangs, Palmitos Park, Parrot, Plumage, Princeton University Press, Rose (color), San Salvador Island, Seed, Sensu, Subspecies, Swietenia mahagoni, Tarsometatarsus, ..., The Bahamas, The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, Villa Clara Province, W. E. Clyde Todd, Wildfire, Wing chord (biology). Expand index (6 more) »

Abaco Islands

The Abaco Islands lie in the northern Bahamas 180 miles (290 km) east of South Florida with similar weather with the exception of local patterns.

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Acklins and Crooked Islands

Acklins and Crooked Islands was a district of the Bahamas until 1996, and as Acklins, Crooked Island and Long Cay until 1999.

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Amazon parrot

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

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Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Arecaceae

The Arecaceae are a botanical family of perennial trees, climbers, shrubs, and acaules commonly known as palm trees (owing to historical usage, the family is alternatively called Palmae).

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Aviculture

Aviculture is the practice of keeping and breeding birds and the culture that forms around it.

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Bahamian pineyards

The Bahamian pineyards are a tropical and subtropical coniferous forest ecoregion in The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, where they occur on an area of.

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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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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.

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Cayman Brac

Cayman Brac is an island that is part of the Cayman Islands.

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Cayman Islands

The Cayman Islands is an autonomous British Overseas Territory in the western Caribbean Sea.

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Charles B. Cory

Charles Cory redirects here.

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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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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.

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Egg incubation

Incubation refers to the process by which certain oviparous (egg-laying) animals hatch their eggs; it also refers to the development of the embryo within the egg.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Frank Knight (artist)

Frank Knight (born 1941) is an Australian wildlife artist and ornithologist.

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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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Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living organisms.

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Grand Cayman

Grand Cayman is the largest of the three Cayman Islands and the location of the territory's capital, George Town.

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Grand Turk Island

Grand Turk Island is an island in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

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Habitat destruction

Habitat destruction is the process in which natural habitat is rendered unable to support the species present.

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Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World

The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World is a book by Richard Howard and Alick Moore which presents a list of the bird species of the world.

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Inagua

Inagua is the southernmost district of the Bahamas, comprising the islands of Great Inagua and Little Inagua.

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International parrot trade

The international trade in parrots is a lucrative enterprise, and forms an important part of the international wildlife trade.

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Iris (anatomy)

In humans and most mammals and birds, the iris (plural: irides or irises) is a thin, circular structure in the eye, responsible for controlling the diameter and size of the pupil and thus the amount of light reaching the retina.

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Isla de la Juventud

Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Youth) is the second-largest Cuban island and the seventh-largest island in the West Indies (after Cuba itself, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and Andros Island).

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IUCN Red List

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), founded in 1964, has evolved to become the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species.

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James L. Peters

James Lee Peters (August 13, 1889 – April 19, 1952) was an American ornithologist.

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Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.

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Little Cayman

Little Cayman is one of three islands comprising the Cayman Islands.

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Little Inagua

Little Inagua is a small remote island in The Bahamas.

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Local extinction

Local extinction or extirpation is the condition of a species (or other taxon) that ceases to exist in the chosen geographic area of study, though it still exists elsewhere.

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Morphology (biology)

Morphology is a branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.

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Near-threatened species

A near-threatened species is a species which has been categorized as "Near Threatened" (NT) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as that may be considered threatened with extinction in the near future, although it does not currently qualify for the threatened status.

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Neontology

Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living (or, more generally, recent) organisms.

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New Providence

New Providence is the most populous island in The Bahamas, containing more than 70% of the total population.

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Outram Bangs

Outram Bangs (January 12, 1863 – September 22, 1932) was an American zoologist.

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Palmitos Park

Palmitos Park is a botanical garden, aviary and zoo on the island of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.

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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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Plumage

Plumage ("feather") refers both to the layer of feathers that cover a bird and the pattern, colour, and arrangement of those feathers.

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Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.

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Rose (color)

Rose is the color halfway between red and magenta on the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel, on which it is at hue angle of 330 degrees.

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San Salvador Island

San Salvador Island (known as Watlings Island from the 1680s until 1925) is an island and district of the Bahamas.

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Seed

A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering.

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Sensu

Sensu is a Latin word meaning "in the sense of".

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Subspecies

In biological classification, the term subspecies refers to a unity of populations of a species living in a subdivision of the species’s global range and varies from other populations of the same species by morphological characteristics.

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Swietenia mahagoni

Swietenia mahagoni, commonly known as the American Mahogany, Cuban Mahogany, Small-leaved Mahogany, and West Indian Mahogany,IUCN Red List: is a species of Swietenia native to southern Florida in the United States and islands in the Caribbean including the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Haiti.

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Tarsometatarsus

The tarsometatarsus is a bone that is only found in the lower leg of birds and certain non-avian dinosaurs.

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The Bahamas

The Bahamas, known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic state within the Lucayan Archipelago.

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The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World

The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World is a book by Jim Clements which presents a list of the bird species of the world.

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Villa Clara Province

Villa Clara is one of the provinces of Cuba.

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W. E. Clyde Todd

Walter Edmond Clyde Todd (Smithfield, Ohio, September 6, 1874 – June 25, 1969), generally known as W.E. Clyde Todd, was an American ornithologist.

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Wildfire

A wildfire or wildland fire is a fire in an area of combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or rural area.

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Wing chord (biology)

Wing chord is an anatomical measurement of a bird's wing.

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Amazona leucocephala, Amazona leucocephala bahamensis, Amazona leucocephala caymanensis, Bahama Amazon, Bahama Parrot, Bahama parrot, Bahamas Amazon, Bahamas Parrot, Cuban Amazon, Cuban Parrot, Cuban parrot, Grand Cayman Amazon, Grand Cayman Parrot, Grand Cayman parrot, Rose-throated Amazon, Rose-throated Parrot, Rose-throated parrot.

References

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

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