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Yellow-shouldered Amazon
Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0, via iNaturalist

Parrots & macaws

Yellow-shouldered Amazon

Amazona barbadensis (Gmelin, 1788)

NT Near Threatened

Names

EnglishYellow-shouldered Amazon
DutchGeelvleugelamazone
SpanishCotorra margariteña
Chinese黄肩亚马逊鹦鹉
Sranan Tongopopokai (general name for the group)
Scientific nameAmazona barbadensis (Gmelin, 1788)

About this species

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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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassAves
OrderPsittaciformes
FamilyPsittacidae
GenusAmazona

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