Red-spectacled Amazon - BirdForum Opus

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Alternative name: Red-spectacled Parrot

Photo by Oregonian
Near Santana da Boa Vista, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil October 2010

Amazona pretrei

Identification

32 cm

• Green plumage
• Red on forehead, face and front edge of the wings
• Pale bill
• White eye-ring

Distribution

South America: found in south-eastern Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul); vagrant to Paraguay and Argentina.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

This is a monotypic species[1].

Habitat

Photo by triclaria
Urupema, Santa Catarina, Brazil, May 2012

Open savanna woodland, araucaria pine forest and gallery forests, moist montanes and plantations.

Behaviour

Breeding

They nest in tree hollows.

Diet

The diet includes fruit, seeds or flowers.

References

1. Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, M. Smith, and C. L. Wood. 2024. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2024. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2024. IOC World Bird List (v 14.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.14.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/

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