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Tucuman Amazon

Amazona tucumana

Vulnerable · IUCN Red List

VUVulnerableOmnivoreForestCavity nestMedium · 260 g
Tucuman Amazon (Amazona tucumana), photo 1
Photo: Nicolas Olejnik · CC BY 4.0
Tucuman Amazon (Amazona tucumana), photo 2
Photo: Hugo Hulsberg · CC0
Tucuman Amazon (Amazona tucumana), photo 3
Photo: Sol Quipildor · CC BY 4.0
Tucuman Amazon (Amazona tucumana), photo 4
Photo: Sol Quipildor · CC BY 4.0
Tucuman Amazon (Amazona tucumana), photo 5
Photo: Florin Feneru · CC BY 2.0
Tucuman Amazon (Amazona tucumana), photo 6
Photo: Hugo Hulsberg · CC0
Tucuman Amazon (Amazona tucumana), photo 7
Photo: Nicolas Olejnik · CC BY 4.0

ID tip

The Tucumán amazon is about 31 cm (12 in) long and weighs 250 to 280 g (8.8 to 9.9 oz). It is mostly green, with black edges on the body feathers that give a scaly appearance. Its forehead and sometimes its lores are red. Bare white skin surrounds its eye. Its lower thighs are orange-yellow, its primary coverts red, and its undertail coverts yellow-green. Its primaries have blue tips and its tail feathers yellowish tips. Immature birds have entirely green thighs. Voice: The Tucumán amazon makes a "variety of screeches and calls, including shrill shrieks and lower-pitched barks." Its flight call is "a repeated, somewhat yelping, shrill "quiowk"."

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When to see the Tucuman Amazon

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Tucuman Amazon

Regular range

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Argentina Bolivia

About the Tucuman Amazon

The Tucumán amazon, also known as the Tucumán parrot, alder amazon, or alder parrot, is a vulnerable species of bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is found in Argentina and Bolivia.

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Easily confused with

Yellow-billed Amazon (Amazona collaria) Yellow-billed AmazonAmazona collariaThe yellow-billed amazon is 28 cm (11 in) long. Red-browed Amazon (Amazona rhodocorytha) Red-browed AmazonAmazona rhodocorythaThe red-browed amazon has a bright red crown fading to purplish-brown at the back. Blue-cheeked Amazon (Amazona dufresniana) Blue-cheeked AmazonAmazona dufresnianaThe blue-cheeked amazon is 34 to 37 cm (13 to 15 in) long and weighs 481 to 615 g (17 to 22 oz).

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