Yellow-necked Amazon [1] ( lat. Amazona auropalliata ) is a bird of the parrot family.
| Yellow-necked amazon |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| View: | Yellow-necked amazon |
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| International scientific name |
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Amazona auropalliata Lesson , 1842 |
| Security status |
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Least ConcernedIUCN 3.1 Least Concern : 22686342 |
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Content
Body length 39 cm. The main color is green. The head is blue-green with a large yellow spot on the back of the head and neck. At the bottom of the feathers there is a small red spot. Around the eyes there is a narrow white area. The beak is dark brown. The iris is dark.
Distributed from Southwest Mexico to Costa Rica .
The female lays 2 to 4 eggs . After 7 weeks, chicks appear, and after 2-2.5 months they leave the nest.
Of the Amazons, this is the most capable parrot. Very attached to a person, quickly becomes manual.
- β A systematic list of vertebrates in zoological collections on 01/01/2012 // Andreeva T.F., Vershinina T.A., Goretskaya M. Ya., Karpov N.V., Kuzmina L.V., Ostapenko V.A., Sheveleva V.P. Informational collection of the Eurasian Regional Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Issue No. 31. Volume II. Mezhved. collection. scientific and scientific method. tr / Ed. V.V. Spitsina. - M.: Moscow Zoo, 2012 .-- S. 372. - 570 p. ISBN 978-5-904012-37-3 PDF Archived May 24, 2013.
