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Species Profile

Genus:
Amazona

Species:
rhodocorytha

Size:	Adult Weight:
35cm (13.6 in)	450g (15.7 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Both adults green with red forehead and crown, a few crown feathers tipped green/blue; black edging to feathers of neck; red/purple feathers on occiput, tipped with black and tinted with blue; nape feathers green tinted with dull red/purple and tipped with black; orange/yellow lores to forecheeks with red tinge; throat and upper cheeks blue; carpal edge green/yellow; secondary feathers 1-3 red at the bases; green tail, the side feathers widely tipped with yellow/ green and banded red just before end, outermost feathers margined with purple/blue. Bill grey with pink/red at base of upper mandible. Eye ring grey, eye orange.

Colourization Juvenile: As in adult but with hindcrown becoming washed with green; occiput to back of neck green, the feathers edged black; yellow lores; ear coverts to forecheeks and throat blue; little red on the bases of the two outermost secondary feathers; little red on side tail feathers. Bill pale pink tipped with grey/white. Eye brown.

Call: Varied calls, usually raucous and continuous.

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