St. Vincent Amazon
A species of Amazon parrots, Also known as Saint Vincent Amazon Scientific name : Amazona guildingii Genus : Amazon parrots
St. Vincent Amazon, A species of Amazon parrots
Also known as:
Saint Vincent Amazon
Botanical name: Amazona guildingii
Genus: Amazon parrots
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Description General Info
Description
The 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. Its tail feathers are blue with broad yellow tips. There is a less yellow-brown morph and a less common green morph. It has grey feet and reddish eyes. Both sexes are similar. The young has lighter plumage and brown iris.
Size
40 cm
Life Expectancy
28 years
Feeding Habits
St. Vincent Amazon primarily consumes a variety of fruits and seeds, displaying feeding behaviors attuned to foraging these items in its habitat. It demonstrates unique dietary preferences, possibly linked to specific fruit ripeness or seed types, distinct from other birds.
Habitat
St. Vincent Amazon typically inhabits mature moist forests, often preferring lower elevations which provide larger trees and a greater abundance of potential nest sites. While these birds are primarily associated with dense forest habitats, they occasionally visit adjacent cultivated areas.
Dite type
Frugivorous
General Info
Distribution Area
The Saint Vincent amazon is endemic to the heavily forested mountains of the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent in the Lesser Antilles. Its diet consists mainly of fruits, nuts, flowers and seeds. The female usually lays one to two eggs.
Species Status
The Nicholas Wildlife Aviary Complex, located within the Botanic Gardens of Saint Vincent (island) maintains a vital captive breeding and conservation program to conserve the St Vincent Parrot. There is also a small population of St. Vincent parrots at the long-closed Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary in Barbados. However, there has been at least one raid on the parrots in the last few years with one being killed so that in 2010 the owner of the Sanctuary requested the Barbados Government if he could move them to an off-shore Island. After some years of prevarication the Barbados Government still has to make a decision on this. Meanwhile, the Sanctuary is suffering from increased poaching and raids, about which the local Police have been reported as not doing anything.
Scientific Classification
Phylum
Chordates Class
Birds Order
Parrots Family
Parrots Genus
Amazon parrots Species
St. Vincent Amazon