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Tucuman Amazon  

Also Known As: Alder Parrot (Amazon)
 
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Tucuman Amazon (Amazona tucumana)

Credit: (c) Uriel Collina
 
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Tucuman fledglings are noisy and fearless. One breeder reports that 20 in one flight were so active, boisterous and happy that it was hazardous to enter their enclosure!

Species Profile
Genus:
Amazona

Species:
tucumana

Size: Adult Weight:
31cm (12.1 in) 320g (11.2 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Both adults mainly green, largish parrots; stocky, with short tail. Red forehead, forecrown and on upperwings; body feathers scalloped with black; orange thighs; tail green with red at base. Bill pink/tan. Eye orange/red.

Colourization Juvenile: As in adult but with minimal red on forehead, followed by orange in some individuals; primary coverts and thighs green. Eye grey.

Call: Mainly shrieking.

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Recent Academic Research: Google Scholar - search results

 

Content Sources:

L. Rivera, 2004

Article, "Tucuman Amazon," by Susan Clubb, DVM http://www.cyberparrots.com/atuc.html

Psittaculturist http://www.parrots-psittaculturist.co.uk/Amazon(T).html

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

BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1667&m=0

Internet Bird Collection http://www.hbw.com/ibc/

xeno-canto America http://www.xeno-canto.org/index.php

Genus Amazona,Stoodley and Stoodley, 1990

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.

Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.