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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
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- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
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- Amazona amazonica
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- litter size
- 3.2
- taxon common name
- papagaio-curica
- taxon range
- Belém
- diel cycle
- diurnality
- short name
- A. amazonica
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Encyclopedic overview
The orange-winged amazon (Amazona amazonica), also known as orange-winged parrot and loro guaro, is a large amazon parrot. It is a resident breeding bird in tropical South America, from Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago south to Peru, Bolivia and central Brazil. Its habitat is forest and semi-open country. Although common, it is persecuted as an agricultural pest and by capture for the pet trade (over 66,000 captured from 1981 to 1985). It is also hunted as a food source. Introduced breeding populations have been reported in Puerto Rico and Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “orange-winged amazon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.