Turquoise-fronted Amazon

• GeneralOne of the most talkative parrots, and one of the most heavily taken for the pet trade.
• It is one of the parrots most able to imitate the human voice, and that reputation is precisely the cause of its decline: for decades it was one of the most heavily exported parrots in the world from Argentina and Brazil.
• In Argentina there is a sustainable-use scheme in the Chaco: a limited number of chicks are taken from monitored nests, local communities are paid and the forest is protected, a controversial model but one that has reduced poaching.
• Its communal roosts gather hundreds of birds and are one of the noisiest spectacles of the Chaco evening.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Dry forest, chaco, cerrado, palm groves and wooded savannah of central South America

Size at birth

Altricial: born blind, naked or with sparse down and entirely dependent

Sexual maturity

4 years

Gestation / incubation

27 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

3 eggs

Sources consulted: https://www.iucnredlist.org/ | https://animaldiversity.org/ | https://es.wikipedia.org/

Best time: All year round in the Chaco, the Pantanal and the Cerrado, by day; it is easiest to detect at dawn, when the flocks leave their roosts.