The Blue-Winged Amazon: A New Parrot Species From the Yucatan Peninsula
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 07:51
in Biology & Nature
In 2014, during a visit to a remote part of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, ornithologist Dr. Miguel A. Gomez Garza came across parrots with a completely different colour pattern from other known species. A study published today in the open-access journal PeerJ names these birds as a new species.