Blue Cheeked Amazon Parrots

Buy Blue Cheeked Amazon Parrots or Dufresne’s Amazon (Amazona dufresniana) was named after the French zoologist Louis Dufresne. This species perhaps frames a superspecies with Red-bested/Red-seared Amazons (Amazona rhodocorytha) and Red-followed Amazon Parrots (Amazona brasiliensis). It previously incorporate the Red-browed Amazon as a subspecies, yet is currently view as monotypic (one single animal types).

This uncommon species is track down in upper east South America; explicitly in south-east Venezuela (Bolívar with a confined record in Amazonas), north Guyana, north-east Suriname and north-east French Guiana. There are reports from Pará and Amapá, Brazil, where its event appears to be plausible, yet there are no convincing records. They possess moist backwoods and cloud-timberland in the lower subtropical zone, however are know from savanna forests in Venezuela. This species happens up to 1,700 m in Venezuela and 560 m in Guyana.

There are an occasional developments undoubtedly because of food accessibility, from inside to beach front Suriname in July to August. The quantities of this species have declined because of catching for food and pet exchange as well as living space misfortune, especially in the Gran Sabana district of Bolívar and portions of beach front Guianas. The Blue-cheeked Amazon Parrot midpoints 13.3 – 14.4 inches (~ 34 – 36 cm) long (counting tail) and weigh around 16.8 – 21 oz (480 – 600g).

The plumage is generally green. It has blue cheeks from around the eye to the neck (less on youthful). The have a yellow-orange wing speculum, a yellowish crown and orange legends (the locale between the eye and bill on a bird’s head). The bill is dim with pink/red at base of upper bill.