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Black-billed Amazon
Also Known As: Black-billed Parrot, All-green Amazon, Active Amazon
Black-billed Amazon
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Did You Know?
The courtship display of the Black-billed Amazon is unlike that of other amazons - the male charges at the female and sways from side to side with a stiff-legged awkward motion, sometimes jumping over the female.
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Not AvailableSpecies Profile
Genus:Amazona
Species:
agilis
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| 25cm (9.75 in) | Not available |
Races including nominate:
one
Colourization Adult: Male-plumage green with yellow/green on underparts; neck feathers softly dusted with black; red primary coverts; green tail with red at base. Bill grey, paler at base. Eye ring dark grey, eye dark brown. Female-as in male but with some primary coverts green instead of red.
Colourization Juvenile: As in adults but all primary coverts green.
Call: Bugling while in flight. While perched growls and rumbles. Other notes sharp and screechy. Call notes higher pitched than calls of Yellow-billed Amazon.
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Content Sources:
Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E319.htm&Pic=319_1.JPG
CITES http://www.cites.org/eng/resources/species.html
BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1665&m=0
ML Media Collection Catalogue 56150 Black-billed Parrot (Amazona agilis), Macaulay, Linda, Manchester, Jamaica, Feb. 24, 1992, Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Parrots: A Guide to Parrots of the World, Juniper and Parr, 1998.
Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.
Parrots: Their Care and Breeding, Low, 1986.
Parrots: Status Survey and Conservation Plan 2000-2004, Snyder, McGowan, Gilardi and Grajal, 2000.
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