Red-spectacled Amazon
Amazona pretrei(Temminck, CJ, 1830)
English (US) Red-spectacled Amazon
The Red-spectacled Amazon (Amazona pretrei) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Psittacidae (African and New World Parrots) in the order Psittaciformes.
Range: Araucaria and broadleaf forest of southeastern Brazil (Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Amazona pretrei
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Red-spectacled Amazon
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1830)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Psittacus pretrei
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1830)
- Type locality
- Mexico?, error = southern Brazil, suggested by Brabourne and Chubb, Bds. So. Am., 1912, p. 90.
- Original description
- Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon livr.83, vol.4 pl.492
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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