blue-crowned

A Margaritan subspecies of parrot, the Margarita s blue-crowned Parakeed, (Aratinga acuticaudata neoxena), occurs in the arid zones around the mangroves of La Restinga lagoon, and is also severely threatened by pet trade.

Araya and Paria xeric scrub 2008

Despite efforts made to reduce massive catch and trade of Yellow-shouldered Amazon and Margarita s blue-crowned Parakeet during their reproductive season, it is still part the way of life of many residents of Macanao peninsula.

Araya and Paria xeric scrub 2008

Every year 70,000 tourists walk among the dripping forests, where relative humidity routinely reaches 100 percent, and marvel at the wealth of wildlife, from the ruby red-eyed tree frog to the sonorous blue-crowned motmot.

The Forest In The Clouds 2007

This dawn-mood of the Earth was also his own; and upon his spirit, as upon her blue-crowned hills, lay the tide of high light with its delicate swift blush.

The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1910

In 2006, we moved Chulo to our Pinole house, where we had a young blue-crowned conure named

SFGate: Top News Stories Eileen Mitchell 2011

The black-legged serieman (Chunga burmeisteri), blue-crowned parakeet (Aratinga acuticadauta), Picui ground dove (Columbina picui), Guira cuckoo (Guira guira), little thornbird (Phacellodomus sibilatrix) and many-colored Chaco finch (Saltaitricula multicolor) make up a large part of the unique avifauna represented in this ecoregion.

Arid Chaco 2007

Captive breeding of the Niuafo’ou megapode, red shining parrot (Prosopeia tabuensis), and blue-crowned lorikeet (Vini australis) has begun as have efforts to establish populations of these species on uninhabited islands.

Tongan tropical moist forests 2008