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Vinaceous Amazon  

Also Known As: Vinaceous-breasted Amazon or Parrot
 
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Vinaceous Amazons

Credit: (c) Anthony Snell
 
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The Vinaceous Amazon usually nests in large, hollow trees but occasionally will also nest in cliff crevices. This bird is also the only Amazon that has a red beak.

Species Profile
Genus:
Amazona

Species:
vinacea

Size: Adult Weight:
30cm (11.7 in) 370g (13 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Both adults in general green with feathers edged dusty black; red lores and frontal band; green long feathers of hindneck and sides of neck, widely edged with pale blue and tipped with dusty black; lilac/red breast, variably washed with blue, the feathers edged with dusty black; green carpal edge, variably marked with yellow and red; secondary feathers 1-3 have red bases, the remainder green; green tail with dark red at base. Bill dull pink/red with horn coloured tip. Eye ring grey. Eye red.

Colourization Juvenile: In general duller than adults, red frontal band less far reaching; breast washed with green; green/yellow carpal edge. Bill horn in colour with dull pink/red at base of upper mandible. Eye brown.

Call: Calls are a variety of sounds including raucous and continuous notes, trilling flight calls, "squeaky door" notes, purring sounds and loud contact and alarm calls.

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Recent Academic Research: Google Scholar - search results

 

Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E337.htm&Pic=337_1.JPG

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

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

BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1686&m=0

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

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

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

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

Parrots of the World, Forshaw and Cooper, 1977.

Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.

Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.

Psittacine Aviculture, Schubot, Clubb and Clubb, 1992.

Parrots: Their Care and Breeding, Low, 1986.