Amazona

NOUN
  1. a genus of Psittacidae

How To Use Amazona In A Sentence

  • Other birds that utilize this ecoregion are yellow-crowned night-heron (Nyctanassa violacea), neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus), yucatan parrot (Amazona xantholora), Yucatán bobwhite (Colinus nigrogularis), and zenaida dove (Zenaida aurita). Petenes mangroves
  • Birds that may visit mangrove communities include Amazona autumnalis, scarlet macaw (Ara macao), green macaw (Ara ambigua), military macaw (A. militaris), snowy cotinga (Carpodectes nitidus), and several parrots, parakeets, and hummingbirds. Mosquitia-Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast mangroves
  • About 750 families live in the three proposed 'extractive' reserves (or Resex) up for approval, which include Baixo Rio Branco-Jauaperi (in the states of Roraima and Amazonas), WWF - Environmental News
  • Three endemic birds are the Elfin-woods warbler (Dendroica angelae), Puerto Rican parrot (Amazona vittata), and Puerto Rican bullfinch (Loxigilla portoricensis). Puerto Rico
  • Those who speak it live on indigenous lands like Diahui, Middle Madeira river, Southern Amazonas State, Municipality of Humaita. As of 2006, one speaker was left.
  • Birds that may visit mangrove communities include Amazona autumnalis, scarlet macaw (Ara macao), green macaw (Ara ambigua), military macaw (A. militaris), snowy cotinga (Carpodectes nitidus), and several parrots, parakeets, and hummingbirds. Mosquitia-Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast mangroves
  • Although no hybridization between those species has been noted in the wild, Amazona species are known to hybridize in captivity.
  • Among these are the Tres Marías yellow-headed parrot Amazona oratrix tresmariae, yellow-naped parrot Amazona auropalliata and the Tres Maríastropical parula Parula pitiayumi insularis. Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico
  • Threatened species include lesser nothura Nothura minor (VU), dwarf tinamou Taoniscus nanus (VU), Brazilian merganser Mergus octosetacues (CR), yellow-faced amazon Amazona zanthops (VU), white-winged nightjar Caprimulgus candicans (EN), rufous-sided pygmy-tyrant Euscarthmus rufomarginatus (VU), cineous warbling finch Poospiza cinerea (VU), marsh seedeater Sporophila palustris (EN), and black-masked finch Coryphaspiza melanotis (VU). Cerrado Protected Areas, Brazil
  • All the large affluents of the Amazonas, which drain the great plains, are navigable to a considerable extent.
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