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Their status as separate species is unproven and they are regarded as hypothetical extinct species. [6] In 2017 a study published by ornithologists Tony Silva, Antonio Guzmán, Adam D. Urantówka and Paweł Mackiewicz proposed a new species for the Yucatan Peninsula area (Mexico), being this named blue-winged amazon (Amazona gomezgarzai). [12]
Birds of the Amazon rainforest (39 C, 524 P) F. Fish of the Amazon basin (368 P) Pages in category "Fauna of the Amazon" The following 200 pages are in this category ...
The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]
Over 1,300 of these species are types of birds, which accounts for one-third of all bird species in the world. The diets of rainforest birds greatly differ between species, although, nuts, fruits and leaves are a common food for many birds in the Amazon. Birds migrate to the Amazon rainforest from the North or South. Amazon birds are threatened ...
G. Galbalcyrhynchus; Galbula; Giant cowbird; Gilded barbet; Glittering-throated emerald; Golden-crowned spadebill; Golden-green woodpecker; Golden-winged parakeet
Amazon parrots are native to the Neotropical Americas, ranging from South America to Mexico, and the Caribbean. [22] Outside of their native habitats, more than 14 species of amazon parrots have been observed. In Italy, there are two reproductive populations of Amazona, dating back to their introduction in 1991 to the city of Genoa. The birds ...
The yellow-crowned amazon or yellow-crowned parrot (Amazona ochrocephala) is a species of parrot native to tropical South America, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean. The taxonomy is highly complex and the yellow-headed ( A. oratrix ) and yellow-naped amazon ( A. auropalliata ) are sometimes considered subspecies of the yellow ...
swimming, Cristalino River, Mato Grosso. The South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris), also commonly called the Brazilian tapir (from the Tupi tapi'ira [3]), the Amazonian tapir, the maned tapir, the lowland tapir, anta (Brazilian Portuguese), and la sachavaca (literally "bushcow", in mixed Quechua and Spanish), is one of the four recognized species in the tapir family (of the order ...