Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Psittaciformes > Psittacidae > Amazona > Amazona vittataAmazona vittata (Puerto Rican Parrot; Puerto Rican Amazon)The Puerto Rican amazon (Amazona vittata), also known as the Puerto Rican parrot or iguaca, is the only bird endemic to the archipelago of Puerto Rico belonging to the Neotropical genus Amazona. Measuring 28–30 cm (11.0–11.8 in), the bird is a predominantly green parrot with a red forehead and white rings around the eyes. Two subspecies have been described, although there are doubts regarding the distinctiveness of the form gracilipes from Culebra Island, extinct since 1912. Its closest relatives are believed to be the Cuban amazon (Amazona leucocephala) and the Hispaniolan amazon (Amazona ventralis). |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 2.86299 EDGE Score: 4.12403 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 275 grams | | Birth Weight [1] | 15.6 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 30 % | | Diet - Plants [2] | 40 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 30 % | | Forages - Canopy [2] | 20 % | | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 50 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 30 % | | | Clutch Size [4] | 3 | | Incubation [3] | 26 days | | Snout to Vent Length [5] | 11 inches (29 cm) |
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Puerto Rican dry forests |
United States |
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Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Puerto Rican moist forests |
United States |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Luquillo Biosphere Reserve |
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Puerto Rico, United States |
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El Yunque |
Puerto Rico (to USA) |
A1, A2 |
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Karso del Norte |
Puerto Rico (to USA) |
A1, A2 |
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El Yunque |
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Caribbean Islands |
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Masello JF, Quillfeldt P (2002) Chick growth and breeding success of the burrowing parrot Condor 104:574–586 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 4Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 5Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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