Paco the Puerto Rican Parrot

Hi! I'm a Puerto Rican Parrot (aka Iguaca, aka Amazona Vittata). I nest in Gopherwood where I create the town chatter and keep my little family fully fed!

[Paco the Puerto Rican Parrot @paco_rican]

Check out Paco and the Tumbling Seed Box! https://t.co/a88lrQeh9I

#pacoandthetumblingseedbox

[Canario Lagoon Hotel @CanarioLagoon]

Did you know the "iguaca" (puertorican parrot) amazona vittata is truly endemic to the Puerto Rico archipelago? The iguaca is critically endangered and it mostly resides at El Yunque. At the Yunque Visitor Portal you can learn more about our unique parrot. #themoreyouknow

[JimsCtmc @AxeTavea]

Charcoal Drawing

Puerto Rican Parrot

#Realisticdrawing #Parrot #Charcoaldrawing #Bird

[Wikipedia's DYK @DidYouKnowWP]

#DidYouKnow that conservationist Frank H. Wadsworth supported and worked with efforts to recover the endangered Puerto Rican parrot? https://t.co/wVBrvVGRcY

[USFWS News @USFWSNews]

Egg-citing news just hatched! 🐣

In the 1970s the sounds of the imperiled Puerto Rican parrot almost disappeared. Thanks to the work of conservationists, the population has improved & these two chicks are from the first nest at a new population site in Marico State Forest.

[👉Birdhism.bsky.social @birdhism]

Iguaca – the endangered Puerto Rican parrot rebounding from Hurricane Maria https://t.co/4SnxHBE73k

[New Frontier Publishing UK @NFPublishingUK]

🎉 We are so excited to see Pedro the Puerto Rican Parrot on @readingagency's brilliant Books of the Year booklist! 🦜
Such an honour to be a part of this list. 📚

Read more here: https://t.co/9C1pYaiho4

[Laurel A Rockefeller @laurelworlds]

Did you know that Hurricane Maria destroyed the flock of iguaca parrots that Christopher Columbus met in the 1490s? Columbus confused this bird with the parakeets in medieval illuminations. #HistoryWritersDay

[La Borinqueña @LaBorinquena_GN]

Wonder Woman debuted in 1941 and in 2018 came to Puerto Rico to help #LaBorinqueña after Hurricane Maria in the benefit anthology #Ricanstruction. In this story written by @MrEdgardoNYC and illustrated by @YanickPaquette she meets Puerto Rico's Amazon's, the Iguaca parrots! 🦜🇵🇷

[El Yunque NF @ElYunqueNF]

¿Te encanta la cotorra puertorriqueña? ¿Te gustaría convertirte en guardabosques voluntario? Cuatro cotorras puertorriqueñas llegarán a nuestras instalaciones educativas, y necesitamos voluntarios. Detalles en la imagen.

[El Yunque NF @ElYunqueNF]

Love the Puerto Rican Parrot? Would you like to become a Volunteer Ranger? Four Puerto Rican Parrots will come soon to our educational facilities, and we need volunteers. See below for further information.

[Careers at Interior @DOICareers]

#PeopleofInterior “Working with the Puerto Rican Parrot, the only parrot species in the U.S. is an honor. There are several natural challenges to conserving the parrot but having a great team of professionals is gratifying!” Marisel López Flores, Project Lead @USFWS
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[MIND & ME - Going to Bat 🏏✨ OUT NOW! @sunitachawdhary]

Hi #animalartistsunite ! I'm Sunita and I illustrate endangered species like Pedro the Puerto Rican Parrot 🦜 & Tala the Bengal Tiger 🐯 as part of a series of children's books supporting Wildlife Vets International 🐾

[Mark Hulme @MarkFHulme]

Thomas White @USFWS discusses minimizing potential allee effects in Psittacine reintroductions, an example from the Puerto Rican #Parrot, including take-home points to improve the chances of successful parrot reintroductions @BirdsCaribbean symposium #2021AOS_SCO #ornithology

[Laurel A Rockefeller @laurelworlds]

@NorthernParrots The generic nature of illuminations of parrots (seen here in this one from 1236) was the primary reason why Columbus confused the iguaca (Puerto Rican parrots) he was seeing with the India-origined Psittacula parakeets common to medieval European aviculture.

[CESaRE (C-Zar) @JournalofCESaRE]

When parrots strike a pose, they go all out! What a fabulous photo 😍

This photogenic parrot is known as the Puerto Rican Amazon (Amazona vittata) or otherwise called Iguaca by locals.

Iguaca are endemic to Puerto Rico and are close relatives to the… https://t.co/JXBEVyilTA

[The Reading Agency @readingagency]

Another brilliant title in the #SummerReadingChallenge book collection is Pedro the Puerto Rican Parrot by Beverly Jatwani and Sunita Chawdhary.

Check out the activity pack (filled with mazes and memory games) here 👉 https://t.co/rMcHFYUXAO

[Conservation Opportunity @ConservationOpp]

OPORTUNIDAD DE EMPLEO:
Técnico de Cotorras
Fechas para aplicar:25/junio/2021 - 1/agosto/2021
World Parrot Trust
Proyecto Conservación de Cotorras Puertorriqueñas del Bosque Río Abajo
Plazo:Tiempo Completo
📩[email protected]
Enlace de información: https://t.co/Db5f5wDjTb

[Tanya Martínez @iguacachick]

Love parrots & looking for a full time field position in wildlife conservation?
It's your chance to join #TeamIguaca! Our partners at @ParrotTrust are currently recruiting a Parrot Technician to assist in our Puerto Rican parrot release efforts in southwest Puerto Rico. 🦜🇵🇷