Blue Amazon: Photo, Video, Housing And Reproduction

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Photo: Amazona aestiva

Kingdom: Animals

Type: chordal

Class: Birds

Squad: parrot

Family: Parrot

Subvenuation: Real parrots

Rod: Amazons

Body length 35—41.5 cm, wing — 20.5—22.5 cm, tail — 13 cm; Weight 400—520 g. Green plumage, with a dark edging feathers of the upper side. Blue forehead, crown, cheeks, bridle and throat yellow. The beak is strong black, 2.9—3.3 cm long. The bend of the wings is red, there is a mirror on the wing. Rainbow — Dark brown or red-brown. The near -eyed rings are white. First described in 1800.

Lives in the forests of the Amazon (Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina).

Parrots are intensely persecuted due to the harm that they cause fruit gardens and Maisian plantations, as well as for meat.

Nests in hollows of trees, which often use for several years in a row. Cases of nesting in wooden termitects are known. In the masonry 2-4 white eggs. Only the female forces 29-30 days. The chicks leave the nest at the age of two months, but parents take care of them for quite some time, two more months.

He is willingly kept in cages in his homeland as «Talking» Bird. Poorly trained parrots make piercing and very unpleasant sounds. Young birds are very well tamed. Know how to distinguish their master from other people. With good housing, they live up to 80, sometimes up to 90 years.

The view includes 2 subspecies.