Lilac-crowned - a smaller, quieter and sociable Amazon

The Lilac-crowned Amazon or Finsch’s Amazon (Amazona finschi) endemic to the Pacific slopes of western Mexico, from south-eastern Sonora and south-west Chihuahua to Southern Oaxaca, mostly inhabit dry, tropical and sub-tropical pine–oak forests up to an altitude of 2,000m (6,500ft).

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