red on forehead and shoulder; otherwise green plumage (Zoo; 1012-10-09)
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Thick-billed Parrot
Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha
Native Range:
Middle America
Notes:
an endangered species of northwestern and Central Mexico, found in temperate confierous forests usually between 6000 and 10000 feet elevation; no sexual dimorphism; also formerly native to the mountains in southeastern Arizona, but now extinct in the United States.
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