Blue-winged Amazon: A new parrot species from the Yucatán Peninsula
The newly identified Blue-winged Amazon parrot has a loud, short call and evolved from the White-fronted parrot quite recently, about 120,000 years ago
Date:
June 27, 2017
Source:
PeerJ
Summary:
In 2014, during a visit to a remote part of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, an ornithologist came across parrots with a completely different color pattern from other known species. A new study names these birds as a new species based on its distinctive shape, color pattern, call and behavior.
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