The newly identified Blue-winged Amazon parrot has a loud, short call and evolved from the White-fronted parrot quite recently, about 120,000 years ago. In 2014, during a visit to a remote part of ...

To learn more how these birds’ brains develop, Mello and his team compared the genome of the blue-fronted Amazon parrot with that of 30 other birds. They found that regions of the parrot genome ...

The blue-fronted Amazon parrot lives up to 66 years in the wild. Deni Williams via Wikicommons under CC BY-SA 2.0 license Deni Williams In general, a bird’s lifespan tends to correlate with its ...

On June 16, 2024, in Utrecht, Netherlands, @Parrotbyash shared a video featuring their two Blue Fronted Amazon Parrots, Koko and Chico. Koko, born in 1940, is one of the oldest parrots in the ...

The bird is also known as Amazona aestiva and the blue-fronted Amazon. According to the World Parrot Trust on Parrots.org, where else, the bird has a "wide repertoire of whistles, shrieks ...

The prima donna in question? A parrot named Molly. The blue-fronted amazon learned to sing scales from a former owner. Many of the parrots at this zoo and breeding center in Durban, South Africa ...

Ornithologist Dr Miguel Gomez Garza and colleagues found the newly named blue-winged ... spectacled amazon. The new species is thought to have evolved from the white-fronted parrot about 120,000 ...

The remains of more than two dozen scarlet macaws and Amazon parrots were found at five different sites in northern Chile's arid Atacama Desert — far from their home in the Amazon rainforest.