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Photo: Amazona albifrons

Photo: Amazona albifrons

Kingdom: Animals

Type: chordal

Class: Birds

Squad: parrot

Family: Parrot

Subvenuation: Real parrots

Rod: Amazons

Belongs to relatively small parrots, body length does not exceed 26 cm; the weight — 380 g. The main coloring of the green plumage. Forehead and narrow area around the eyes are white. A strip around the eyes, forming a semblance of glasses of glasses — Red. Red strip is also on the wings — From the bend to paramount flyers. Flake feathers and stripes on the crown of blue. The lower part of the belly and the subsidiary have a yellowish tint. The beak is yellow. The iris yellow. The females in the plumage of the wing lack red color.

Live in Central America — From the northwestern part of Mexico to Costa Rica.

Inhabit wet tropical forests and savannahs with tall trees.

In the masonry, as a rule, 2-4 eggs. Running lasts 28-30 days. In the nest, the chicks are 60-65 days, after which they are fed up for more than a month.

Due to small sizes, this type of parrot is very popular among bird lovers. Usually live up to 50 years.

The view includes 3 subspecies.

White -faced Amazona Albifrons Albifrons (Sparrman, 1788) — nominal subspecies. Lives in the central and western regions of Mexico and in the southwest of Guatemala.
Small white -faced Amazona Albifrons Nana W Amazona. Miller, 1905 — smaller than nominal subspecies, body length 24 cm. Distributed from the south of Mexico to southwest Costa Rica
Sonorian white -faced Amazona Albifrons Saltuensis Nelson, 1899 — Unlike the nominal subspecies, the overall color of the green-blue plumage. The back of the head is blue. Lives in the north-west of Mexico (in the Durango and Sonor area).