Sinelian Amazon: Photo, Video, Housing And Reproduction

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Photo: Amazona Versicolor

Kingdom: Animals

Type: chordal

Class: Birds

Squad: parrot

Family: Parrot

Subvenuation: Real parrots

Rod: Amazons

Body length 43 cm. The coloring of the plumage is green. Forehead and front of the head blue-violet. Head, ears and cheeks — Blue. Some individuals have a red spot on their chests, others — Only a noticeable trace. Paramount fluary blue-violet, secondary — Green with blue-violet tips, on the extreme there is red «mirror». Wings are green-blue. The extreme tail feathers are blue-red at the base. Dark-eyed rings are dark gray. The iris is light orange. Gray paws. The beak is dark gray, to the base lighter and yellow.

Lives on about. Saint-Lusia (Small Antille Islands).

Inhabits mountain forests, wet forests on slopes to a height of 1000 m above sea level.

Is on the verge of disappearance. In addition to many years of cutting down and uprooting old trees, replacing forests with plantations, populations of these birds regularly damaged hunters and poultry. At the end of the XX century, there were about 400 individuals in the wild. Located under the state protection program. In 1980, he was officially declared the National Bird of St. Lucia.