Orange-winged Parrot
Amazona amazonica
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 1,762
- Most observed in
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
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.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Orange-winged amazon”.