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What the St. Lucia Amazon sounds like
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The Saint Lucia amazon is 42 to 46 cm (17 to 18 in) long and weighs 505 to 1,000 g (18 to 35 oz). The sexes are alike. Their forehead is royal blue that is lighter on the crown and the rest of the face. Their hindcrown, nape, sides of the neck, and mantle are scaly green. The rest of their upperparts are plain green. Their upper breast is red, their lower breast and belly mottled green and maroon, and their vent area greenish yellow. Their wings are green with a red speculum and dark blue primaries. Their tail feathers are green with wide yellowish tips.
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When to see the St. Lucia Amazon
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.
Where to see the St. Lucia Amazon
The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the St. Lucia Amazon
The Saint Lucia amazon, also known as the St. Lucia amazon and St. Lucia parrot, is a Vulnerable species of bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is endemic to Saint Lucia in the Lesser Antilles and is the country's national bird.
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Easily confused with
Red-necked AmazonAmazona arausiacaThe red-necked amazon averages about 40 cm in length and can weigh between 550 and 650 g.
St. Vincent AmazonAmazona guildingiiThe bird is a 40 centimetres (16 in) long, mostly green, multi-colored amazon parrot with a yellowish white, blue and green head, greenish-bronze upperparts, grey feet, reddish eye, and violet blue-green wings.
Red-spectacled AmazonAmazona pretreiThe red-spectacled amazon is 32 cm (13 in) long.
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