Moreover, the black-billed amazon is the smallest Amazon parrot at only 10 inches long. The parrots feed on fruit, seeds and nuts, but also enjoy cultivated fruit like mangos, papayas and ...

Free-living red-crowned parrots have been adapting so well to urban life in California, Florida, and Texas that their population numbers may rival those in their native Mexico, says a team of US ...

Probable Red-crowned Amazon parrots in Santee on March 14, 2024. (Courtesy of Rod Lagace) Migration due to habitat loss through deforestation or poaching — the principal drivers behind the ...

First red-tailed hawks, now blacked-headed caiques. Tompkins Square Park is clearly for the birds. An East Village man recently corralled the caique — a rare Amazon parrot — near the en… ...

A protected place, therefore, and as such one of the favorites of the red-tailed amazon (Amazona brasiliensis), a bird found only along the largest stretch of preserved Atlantic Forest in Brazil ...

Lucy, a yellow-naped Amazon parrot known for singing Itsy Bitsy Spider, escaped from her cage on June 1 in the Five Towns area of St. Petersburg. Yates removed the bird a day later from a condominium.

There are about 30 species of vibrantly colored Amazon parrots that soar through the skies of Mexico, the Caribbean and South America. ... Fiery red plumage sprouts from the parrot’s forehead.

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A rare Amazon parrot hatched at the Houston Zoo earlier this summer, and now we're getting our first look at the adorable little bird. Mustique Springer, a male St. Vincent ...

A species of parrot was recently identified and is now known as Amazona gomezgarzai – the blue-winged Amazon – according to a new study.

Brazil’s red-tailed amazon parrot is a rare success story for reviving a species heading toward extinction, Mongabay Brasil’s Xavier Bartaburu reports.. By the end of the 20th century, the ...