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Red-tailed Amazon
Amazona brasiliensis
Near ThreatenedThe Red-tailed Amazon is a stocky, vocal parrot of forests and wooded country, feeding on fruit, seeds, buds, and blossoms in Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. It usually nests in tree cavities or cliff holes and may make local movements as food trees fruit or flower. Fun fact: many parrots use strong hooked bills and zygodactyl feet together like a climbing-and-feeding toolkit.
- Family
- Psittacidae
- Range
- Red-tailed Amazon Range — Resident range in Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil
- Population
- ≈ Unknown