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St. Lucia Amazon  

Also Known As: St. Lucia Parrot, Blue-masked Amazon, Versicolor Amazon
 
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St. Lucia Amazon

Credit: © World Parrot Trust

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This species is confined to an area of about 25,000 acres (10,000 ha) on the island of St. Lucia in the Lesser Antilles.

Species Profile
Genus:
Amazona

Species:
versicolor

Size: Adult Weight:
43cm (16.8 in) 700-800g (24.5-28 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Both adults generally green plumage, with feathers tipped black; purple/blue forehead, lores and forecrown, merging into paler blue on hindcrown, ear coverts and upper cheeks; red stripe across foreneck, reaching to upper breast; green feathers on lower breast, widely edged red/brown and tipped with black; feathers of upper abdomen red/brown with green bases and tipped with dusty black; red outer secondary feathers turning to purple/blue near tips, the inner secondaries green turning to purple/blue toward tips; carpal edge yellow/green; tail green with hidden red markings at base. Bill grey. Eye ring grey, eye orange.

Colourization Juvenile: As in adult but duller. Bill grey. Eye brown.

Call: Calls are raucous, harsh screeching while in flight. Occasional series of shrill squawks. Also high-pitched cackling or soft purring while feeding or preening.

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Content Sources:

Article "Species Management Guidelines," by Nadja Ziegler http://www.zoolex.org/publication/ziegler/amazona.pdf

Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust - St. Lucia Amazon/Parrot

CITES http://www.cites.org/eng/resources/species.html

BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1687&m=0

ARKive http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/birds/Amazona_versicolor/more_moving_images.html

ML Media Collection Catalogue 115934, St. Lucia Parrot Amazona versicolor, Macaulay, Linda, St. Lucia, Dec. 29 2001, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Parrots: A Guide to Parrots of the World, Juniper and Parr, 1998.

Parrots: Status Survey and Conservation Plan 2000-2004, Snyder, McGowan, Gilardi and Grajal, 2000.

Parrots of the World, Forshaw and Cooper, 1989.

Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.