Thank you Cindy for these awesome shots. What a beautiful bird.
Hugs! Veraiconica
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Isn’t this guy gorgeous? It took me awhile to find out what he was. Thank you google. The unique Hawk-headed Parrot is the only member of it’s own genus, Deroptyus. It has unusual elongated feathers on it’s neck that it can raise in a frill or fan when threatened. It is, for this reason, also sometimes referred to as a Fan-headed Parrot. You can see these long red and blue feathers in the shot below.
It is a fruitivore that lives in The Amazon Basin.
Reportedly, HH Parrots are prone to be stubborn, ill-tempered, and even aggressive at times as pets.
Maybe they prefer hanging out in the Amazon to being pets. Who can blame them? I’ve been to The Amazon, and if I were a parrot I would much rather be there than in a cage in someone’s house.
This guy wasn’t threatened or ill-tempered…
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