Yucatan Amazon
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| Yucatan Amazon | |
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| Female at Xcaret Eco Park, Mexico | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Psittaciformes |
| Family: | Psittacidae |
| Genus: | Amazona |
| Species: | A. xantholora |
| Binomial name | |
| Amazona xantholora (Gray, 1859) |
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The Yucatan Amazon (Amazona xantholora), also known as the Yellow-lored Amazon, Yucatan Parrot or Yellow-lored Parrot is a species of Amazon parrot in the Psittacidae family. It is found in Belize, Honduras, and Mexico. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, coastal mangroves and heavily degraded former forest; an example location of occurrence is in the Petenes mangroves ecoregion of the Yucatan. (World Wildlife Fund. 2010)
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Female at Xcaret Eco Park
[edit] References
- BirdLife International 2008. Amazona xantholora. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 January 2009.
- World Wildlife Fund. 2010. Petenes mangroves. eds. Mark McGinley, C.Michael Hogan & C. Cleveland. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC
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