Tukuman Amazon: Photo, Video, Housing And Reproduction

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Photo: Amazona Tucumana

Kingdom: Animals

Type: chordal

Class: Birds

Squad: parrot

Family: Parrot

Subvenuation: Real parrots

Rod: Amazons

Body length 30-31 cm. The main coloring of the plumage is dark green, with a well-visible dark edging feathers. Forehead and crown to the middle of red color. Extreme flyers, closer to the base, have areas of red. Hiding legs orange-yellow and form as it were «Pants» on a green background of the lower body. The steering feathers are green, and yellow-green at the tips. Their inner side of yellow-green tones. The beak is light, the colors of the horns. The iris of yellow-orange, near-eyed rings are bare and white. The male and the female are painted the same, there are no differences between them.

Lives in mountainous regions in the south of Bolivia and the northwest of Argentina.

A resident of virgin tropical forests, occurs to a height of 2000 m above sea level. Olha and araukariy seeds are eaten in food. Along with this, they also feed on various fruits, seeds, nuts and berries of other trees and shrubs. With the onset of the cold season, parrots descend from mountain forests into a more warmer in the climate of forests plains.

The propagation period falls on December and January. In laying 1—4 eggs. Running lasts 27—28 days.

Became very rare due to deforestation and illegal capture. In nature, there are about 5500 birds.

This species is very rare in captivity.