Amazona amazonica
Silhouette: Ferran Sayol · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~70% in a week ~90%
The orange-winged amazon (Amazona amazonica), also known as orange-winged parrot and loro guaro, is a large amazon parrot. It is a resident breeding bird in tropical South America, from Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago south to Peru, Bolivia and central Brazil. Its habitat is forest and semi-open country. Although common, it is persecuted as an agricultural pest and by capture for the pet trade (over 66,000 captured from 1981 to 1985). It is also hunted as a food source. Introduced breeding populations have been reported in Puerto Rico and Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
The orange-winged amazon was formally described in 1766 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the twelfth edition of his Systema Naturae He placed it with all the other parrots in the genus Psittacus and coined the binomial name Psittacus amazonicus. Linnaeus cited the 1760 description by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson. Brisson used the French name "Le Perroquet Amazone" and the Latin name later used by Linnaeus, Psittacus amazonicus. Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Main Ridge Forest Reserve | 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago | |
| 2 | Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 3 | Yasuní National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 4 | Caroni Swamp | 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago | |
| 5 | Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Anavilhanas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 7 | Henri Pittier National Park | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 8 | Sierra de la Macarena National Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 9 | Amacayacu National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 10 | Emas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 11 | Brownsberg Nature Park | 🇸🇷 Suriname | |
| 12 | Tijuca National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 13 | Tayrona National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 14 | Los Nevados National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Belém | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Caracas | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 3 | João Pessoa | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Valencia | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 5 | Manaus | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Goiânia | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 7 | São Luís | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 8 | Medellín | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 9 | Rio de Janeiro | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 10 | Barranquilla | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report an Orange-winged Parrot sighting in Caracas on a given day, based on 3,608 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 25th most-seen of the 295 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January to May
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report an Orange-winged Parrot in Caracas on a given day, against about 30% in June to December, the lowest months. Those are among Caracas's driest months, with about 40 mm of rain a month against 120 mm in August.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Orange-winged Parrot sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
2nd of 16
Of the 16 cities where we can rate Orange-winged Parrot sightings, Caracas ranks 2nd at about 30%. The best odds are in Belém (Brazil, about 60%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Orange-winged Parrot is recorded against all the birds logged in Caracas (3,608 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
