mealy amazon (Amazona farinosa) Amazona farinosa
English: A Mealy Amazon in Ecuador. Based on other photos taken the same day in the author's Picasa Web Album, it is from eastern (Amazonian) Ecuador.
Date 21 July 2009
Source Picasa Web Albums
Author Erik http://picasaweb.google.com/erikbeans
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amazona_farinosa_-Ecuador-8.jpg
The mealy amazon or mealy parrot (Amazona farinosa) is among the largest parrot in the Amazona genus, the amazon parrots. It is endemic to tropical Central and South America.
Order: Psittaciformes
Superfamily: Psittacoidea
Family: Psittacidae
Subfamily: Arinae
Tribe: Androglossini
Genus: Amazona
Species: Amazona farinosa (Boddaert, 1783)