The Blue-winged Amazon has a green crown, whereas others in the Amazona category have blue crowns. It lives in flocks of fewer than 12 birds that tend to stay together in their own parrot cliques.

A species of parrot was recently identified and is now known as Amazona gomezgarzai – the blue-winged Amazon – according to a new study.

Blue-winged Amazon: A new parrot species from the Yucatán Peninsula. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 06 / 170627073607.htm ...

Genome of blue-fronted Amazon parrot compared with 30 other long-lived birds Date: December 6, 2018 Source: Carnegie Mellon University Summary: ...

Responding to this criticism, Mackiewicz says that the team looked at the same genes as other parrot studies. If the Blue-winged Amazon is in fact a distinct species, it is also a rare one.

The newly identified Blue-winged Amazon parrot has a loud, short call and evolved from the White-fronted parrot quite recently, about 120,000 years ago. In 2014, during a visit to a remote part of ...