Editing Amazon parrot (section)

== Description ==
Most amazon parrots are predominantly green, with contrasting colors on parts of the body such as the crown, face and flight feathers; these colours vary by species.<ref name="Teitler 1989">{{cite book|last=Teitler|first=Risa|title=Taming and Training Amazon Parrots|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6mOlbr37ZxMC|year=1989|publisher=T.F.H. Publications|isbn=978-0-86622-952-4|access-date=2021-07-16|archive-date=2021-07-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720061627/https://books.google.com/books?id=6mOlbr37ZxMC|url-status=live}}</ref>{{rp|8}} They are medium- to large-sized parrots, measuring between {{Convert|23–45|cm|in|abbr=on|frac=4}} long, and have short, rounded tails and wings. They are heavy-billed, and have a distinct notch on the upper mandible and a prominent naked [[cere]]<ref>{{Cite journal|pmc = 4019560|year = 2014|last1 = Urantówka|first1 = A. D.|last2 = MacKiewicz|first2 = P.|last3 = Strzała|first3 = T.|title = Phylogeny of Amazona barbadensis and the Yellow-Headed Amazon Complex (Aves: Psittacidae): A New Look at South American Parrot Evolution|journal = PLOS ONE|volume = 9|issue = 5|pages = e97228|doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0097228|pmid = 24823658|bibcode = 2014PLoSO...997228U|doi-access = free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Ottens-Wainright|first1=Patricia|last2=Halanych|first2=Kenneth M.|last3=Eberhard|first3=Jessica R.|last4=Burke|first4=Rachel I.|last5=Wiley|first5=James W.|last6=Gnam|first6=Rosemarie S.|last7=Aqualera|first7=Xiomara Gálvez|date=2004|title=Independent geographic origins of the genus Amazona in the West Indies|url=https://jco.birdscaribbean.org/index.php/jco/article/view/384|journal=Journal of Caribbean Ornithology|language=en|volume=17|pages=23–49|issn=1544-4953|access-date=2021-07-16|archive-date=2021-07-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716000510/https://jco.birdscaribbean.org/index.php/jco/article/view/384|url-status=live}}</ref>{{rp|27}} with [[seta]]e on it.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Schmidt|first1=Robert E.|last2=Reavill|first2=Drury R.|last3=Phalen|first3=David N.|title=Pathology of Pet and Aviary Birds|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-o0lCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA21|date=6 July 2015|publisher=Wiley|isbn=978-1-118-82811-3|access-date=25 July 2021|archive-date=25 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725145034/https://books.google.com/books?id=-o0lCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA21|url-status=live}}</ref>{{rp|21}} Male and female amazon parrots are roughly the same size, though males can be larger at times<ref name=gerholdt/>{{rp|6}} - most amazon parrots do not show sexual dimorphism, exceptions being the [[white-fronted amazon]],<ref name="worldparrottrust1">{{cite web |title=WHITE-FRONTED AMAZON (Amazona albifrons) |url=https://www.parrots.org/encyclopedia/white-fronted-amazon |publisher=World Parrot Trust |access-date=27 July 2021 |archive-date=9 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609023252/https://www.parrots.org/encyclopedia/white-fronted-amazon/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Yucatan amazon]]<ref name="worldparrottrust2">{{cite web |title=YELLOW-LORED AMAZON (Amazona xantholora) |url=https://www.parrots.org/encyclopedia/yellow-lored-amazon |publisher=World Parrot Trust |access-date=27 July 2021 |archive-date=10 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910010426/https://www.parrots.org/encyclopedia/yellow-lored-amazon |url-status=live }}</ref> and the [[turquoise-fronted amazon]], the latter species being sexually dimorphic when viewed in the ultraviolet spectrum, invisible to humans.<ref name="santos">{{cite journal |last1=Santos |first1=Susana I. C. O. |last2=Elward |first2=Brian |last3=Lumeij |first3=Johannes T. |title=Sexual Dichromatism in the Blue-Fronted Amazon Parrot (Amazona aestiva) Revealed by Multiple-Angle Spectrometry |year=2006 |issue=1 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40236514 |journal=Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery |volume=20 |access-date=27 July 2021 |pages=8–14 |doi=10.1647/1082-6742(2006)20[8:SDITBA]2.0.CO;2 |jstor=40236514 |s2cid=17124101 |archive-date=8 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208194345/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40236514 |url-status=live }}</ref> They can weigh from 190g to more than 565g.<ref name=gerholdt/>{{rp|6}} The average body temperature of an amazon parrot is 41.8 degrees Celsius, or 107.1 degrees Fahrenheit. Their heart rates range from 340 to 600 beats per minute, with 15-45 breaths per minute.<ref name=lafeber2/>