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Yellow-shouldered amazon
Species of bird / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The yellow-shouldered amazon (Amazona barbadensis), also known as the yellow-shouldered parrot, is a parrot of the genus Amazona that is found in the arid areas of northern Venezuela, the Venezuelan islands of Margarita and La Blanquilla, and the island of Bonaire (Caribbean Netherlands). It has been extirpated from and reintroduced to Aruba and introduced to Curaçao.
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Yellow-shouldered amazon | |
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A pet on a wooden climbing frame in Venezuela | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Psittaciformes |
Family: | Psittacidae |
Genus: | Amazona |
Species: | A. barbadensis |
Binomial name | |
Amazona barbadensis (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | |
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