Amazona festiva
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
The festive amazon (Amazona festiva), also known as the festive parrot, is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela. It is associated with forest (especially Várzea) and woodland growing near major rivers. Locally, it is also found in coastal mangroves (primarily in Amapá).
The festive amazon was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. He placed it with all the other parrots in the genus Psittacus and coined the binomial name Psittacus festivus. Linnaeus mistakenly specified the type location as "Indies". It was later designated as the Amazon River in Brazil. The festive amazon is now one of around thirty species placed in the genus Amazona that was introduced by the French naturalist René Lesson in 1830. The genus name is a Latinized version of the name Amazone used in the 18th century by the Comte de Buffon. The specific epithet festivus is Latin for "festive" or "cheerful".
Two subspecies are recognised: Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anavilhanas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Amacayacu National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 3 | Caroni Swamp | 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago | |
| 4 | Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve | 🇪🇨 Ecuador |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manaus | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zoo das Aves | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Amaru | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 3 | Loro Parque | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 4 | Agroflori Parque de las Aves | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 5 | Aquarium Barcelona | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 6 | Selva Viva Park | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 7 | Tropical Manaus Zoo | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 8 | Zoológico do Acre | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | GüiráOga | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Festive Parrot sighting in Manaus on a given day, based on 16 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 72nd most-seen of the 116 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Festive Parrot in Manaus on a given day, against under 5% in August to June, the lowest months. That is one of Manaus's driest months, with about 75 mm of rain against 270 mm in March.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Festive 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.
Only Manaus, in our data
Manaus is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Festive Parrot sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Festive Parrot is recorded against all the birds logged in Manaus (16 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.
