Orange-winged Amazon
Amazona amazonica
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The orange-winged amazon, also known as orange-winged parrot and loro guaro, is a large amazon parrot. It is a resident breeding bird in tropical South America, from Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago south to Peru, Bolivia and central Brazil. Its habitat is forest and semi-open country. Although common, it is persecuted as an agricultural pest and by capture for the pet trade. It is also hunted as a food source. Introduced breeding populations have been reported in Puerto Rico and Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- Family
- Psittacidae
- Genus
- Amazona