Orange-winged Parrot / Orange-winged Amazon vs Septicweed

Amazona amazonica compared with Senna occidentalis

Taxonomic Classification

Rank Orange-winged Parrot / Orange-winged Amazon Septicweed
Kingdom Animalia (Animals) Plantae (Plants)
Phylum Chordata (Chordates) Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class Aves (Birds) Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order Psittaciformes (Parrots) Fabales (Legumes & Allies)
Family Psittacidae (True Parrots) Fabaceae
Genus Amazona Senna
Species Amazona amazonica Senna occidentalis

Conservation Status

Orange-winged Parrot / Orange-winged Amazon

LC — Least Concern

Septicweed

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute Orange-winged Parrot / Orange-winged Amazon Septicweed
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Habitat & Geographic Range

Orange-winged Parrot / Orange-winged Amazon

Habitat

Typically found in various aerial, terrestrial, and aquatic environments.

Range

Widely distributed across Europe (6 countries), North America (Barbados, Saint Lucia, United States), and South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela).

Septicweed

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, montane grasslands and shrublands, and deserts and xeric shrublands, among 4 distinct biome types spanning the Afrotropic and Indomalayan realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (40 countries), Asia (19 countries), Europe (8 countries), North America (7 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (13 countries), and South America (Brazil, Colombia, Guyana).

Orange-winged Parrot / Orange-winged Amazon

A medium-sized amazon parrot of South American tropical and secondary forests, orange-winged amazons have predominantly green plumage with distinctive orange wing patches visible in flight, blue and yellow on the head. Found from Colombia and Trinidad east to Venezuela, the Guianas, and south through Brazil and Bolivia. One of the most common and widespread amazons, living in large, noisy flocks and roosting communally. They are widely kept as pets throughout Latin America and internationally.

Septicweed

No description available.

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