Red-spectacled Amazon
Amazona pretrei
Large, mostly green parrot with large red patches around the eyes and forehead and on the leading edge of the wing and shoulders. Note the bare white eyering. Patchily distributed; found mostly found in Araucaria forest. Nests in open woodland.
Identification
The red-spectacled amazon is 32 cm (13 in) long. It is mostly green with some sparse red spots on head, variable extent of red on forehead, lores and around eyes, white eyerings, red on the bend of the wings with blue tips to secondaries and primaries and yellowish bill. Females have less red on the bend of the wing.<p>Diet:90 percent of the Red-spectacled amazon's diet that inhabits the wild contains Angustifolia seeds, those in captivity, their diets consist of vegetables along with Araucaria seeds.
Taxonomy
Genus: Amazona; Family: Psittacidae; Order: Psittaciformes.
- Scientific name
- Amazona pretrei
- Authority
- (Temminck, 1830)
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- Family
- Psittacidae
- Genus
- Amazona
Range and habitat
- Migration
- Complete migrants
Behavior
Migration pattern: Complete migrants.
Conservation
Population trend: stable.
- Population trend
- stable
Photos
Distribution
Bird Calls
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