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Imperial Amazon
Also Known As: Sisserou, August Amazon (Parrot), Dominican Amazon (Parrot)
Imperial Amazon feeding
Credit: (c) World Parrot Trust
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Did You Know?
The Imperial Amazon is the largest of the amazons at 45cm (17.5 in), 900g (31.5 oz).
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Not AvailableSpecies Profile
Genus:Amazona
Species:
imperialis
| Size: | Adult Weight: |
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| 48 cm (18.7 in) | 900g (31.5 oz) - males 650g (22.75 oz) - females |
Races including nominate:
one
Colourization Adult: Both adults brown/purple forehead and lores, becoming browner on cheeks to ear coverts; burgundy/maroon crown and neck, washed with green/blue, the feathers edged with black; breast and abdomen dark lilac/purple, the feathers edged dusty black; olive/green lower underparts, feathers tipped green/blue; upperparts dark green, feathers edged black; secondary feathers 1-3 dark burgundy at bases, the remaining secondaries green; red carpal edge; tail red/brown. Bill grey/horn. Eye-ring grey/brown, eye orange/red.
Colourization Juvenile: As in adult but duller; face dull red/brown; occiput to hindneck green; area behind cheeks tinged with green. Eye brown.
Call: Wide variety of calls including whistles, shrieks and squawks. Often loud, but also can be squeaky.
Recent Academic Research: Google Scholar - search results
Content Sources:
Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E340.htm&Pic=340_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=1690&m=0
Parrots: A Guide to Parrots of the World, Juniper and Parr, 1998.
Parrots of the World, Forshaw and Cooper, 1989.
Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.
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