What is lilac crowned amazon?
The lilac crowned amazon mainly inhabits lowland forests and mountainous areas with a height of 2200 meters, but also likes to live in oak and pine forests. They usually live in pairs, sometimes in groups of up to 300 or so, resting in roosting trees in numbers of hundreds, and quite noisy when flying in groups. They also have a migratory habit. The location of the migration is determined by the availability of food.
What does lilac crowned amazon look like?
According to different subspecies ranging from 33 to 34CM. The bird is green, with a small dark reddish-brown feather on the forehead, followed by a light purple feather, the sides and neck of the neck are light blue; the cheeks are bright green, and the ear feathers are near the Yellow-green; secondary coverts blue-purple with red markings on the first 5 feathers; tail with green base and yellow-green tip. The bird’s beak is waxy white with a light yellow tinge, and the iris is orange.
lilac crowned amazon living habits
Reproduction oviparous. The breeding season of the purple-crowned Amazon in the wild is from February to June. During the breeding period, it will become very noisy. It will lay 2 to 4 eggs at a time. The incubation period is 26 days. Usually, not every egg hatches smoothly. The fledgling feathers are about 8 weeks old.
lilac crowned amazon rearing
Purple-crowned Amazons mainly feed on fruits (especially figs), berries, nuts, flowers, shoots from tree tops, etc. At the same time, they also like to gather in farming areas to eat crops, especially cereals and bananas in banana orchards, so they often damage to local crops.
