Blue-winged Amazon: A new parrot species from the Yucatán Peninsula
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 11:22
in Biology & Nature
In 2014, during a visit to a remote part of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, an ornithologist came across parrots with a completely different color pattern from other known species. A new study names these birds as a new species based on its distinctive shape, color pattern, call and behavior.