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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]
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 ...
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 new species, described in the journal Diversity, diverged from the previously known southern green anaconda about 10 million years ago, differing genetically from it by 5.5 per cent.
A video shared online shows the scale of these 20-foot-long (6.1-meter-long) reptiles as one of the researchers, Dutch biologist Freek Vonk, swims alongside a giant 200-kilo (441-pound) specimen.
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 ]
G. Galbalcyrhynchus; Galbula; Giant cowbird; Gilded barbet; Glittering-throated emerald; Golden-crowned spadebill; Golden-green woodpecker; Golden-winged parakeet
Animals of all kinds change physically when they move to a “cave-dwelling life,” according to the study, so the lack of sound-making ridges and hearing may be a complete adaptation for some of ...