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.
- Amazona aestiva aestiva (Linnaeus, 1758) — nominal subspecies.
- Yellow -Fleet blue Amazon Amazona Aestiva Xanthoptyx (Berlepsch, 1896)
Other types of genus «Amazons»:
- White -faced Amazon
- Red -tailed Amazon
- Venezuelan Amazon
- Vinnogrude Amazon
- Yellow -headed Amazon
- Yellow -bellied Amazon
- Yellow -bellied Amazon
- Yellow -based Amazon
- Yellowish Amazon
- Greenish Amazon
- Imperial Amazon
- Royal Amazon
- Red -Robbed Amazon
- Red -zone Amazon
- Yellowish Amazon
- Cuban Amazon
- Puerto Rican Amazon
- Luxurious Amazon
- Sinelian Amazon
- Sinex Amazon
- Sineshapic Amazon
- Soldier Amazon
- Tukuman Amazon
- Festive Amazon
- Black -Jewish Amazon
- Yamaisky black -billed Amazon
- Surinam Amazon
- Yamaisky yellow -billed Amazon
- Amazon Cavall
- Amazon Muller