Editing Amazon parrot (section)

===Communication and sociality===
Amazon parrots mostly communicate vocally.<ref>{{cite book|last=Meehan|first=Cheryl Lynne|title=Environmental enrichment and behavioral development of orange-winged Amazon parrots (Amazona amazonica).|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Bcs2vcstWUC|year=2002|publisher=University of California, Davis|access-date=2021-07-16|archive-date=2021-07-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716164256/https://books.google.com/books?id=4Bcs2vcstWUC|url-status=live}}</ref>{{rp|150}} Species such as [[orange-winged amazon]]s have nine different recorded vocalizations used in different situations. However, patterns of gestural communication have been observed with the birds, thought to be used to avoid predators.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Moura|first1=L. N.|last2=Silva|first2=M. L.|last3=Garotti|first3=M. M. F.|last4=Rodrigues|first4=A. L. F.|last5=Santos|first5=A. C.|last6=Ribeiro|first6=I. F.|title=Gestural communication in a new world parrot|journal=Behavioural Processes|volume=105|year=2014|url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2014.03.003|doi=10.1016/j.beproc.2014.03.003|pages=46–48|pmid=24631994|s2cid=37064930|access-date=2021-07-21|archive-date=2021-07-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210729154623/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376635714000680?via%3Dihub|url-status=live}}</ref> In general, amazon parrots are very social birds in their foraging, roosting, and nesting. Most amazon parrots travel in large groups and have clumped nesting, but the four species in the [[Lesser Antilles]] are less social. Theories for why this is include the lack of predation risk.<ref name=luescher/>{{rp|15}} In captivity, amazon parrots are known for their [[Talking bird|ability to talk]]- learning to communicate by mimicking speech and other sounds of human origin. They also appear to have an affinity for human music and singing.<ref name="lafeber" />

Extensive studies of vocal behavior in wild [[yellow-naped amazon]]s show the presence of vocal dialects,<ref>{{Cite journal|pmc=3232001|year=2012|last1=Wright|first1=T. F.|title=Regional dialects in the contact call of a parrot.|journal=Proc R Soc Lond B|volume=263|issue=1|pages=867–872|doi=10.1098/rspb.1996.0128|pmid=22162899}}</ref> in which the repertoire of calls that parrots vocalize change at discrete geographic boundaries, similar to how humans have different languages or dialects. Dialects are stable over long periods of time<ref>{{Cite journal|pmc=3232001|year=2008|last1=Wright|first1=T. F.|last2=Salinas-Melgoza|first2=A.|last3=Dahlin|first3=C.R.|title=Stability and change in vocal dialects of the yellow-naped amazon.|journal=Animal Behaviour|volume=144|issue=1|pages=207–228|doi=10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.03.025|pmid=22162899}}</ref> and are meaningful to the parrots; they are less responsive to calls that are not their own dialect.<ref>{{Cite journal|pmc=3232001|year=2001|last1=Wright|first1=T. F.|last2=Dorin|first2=M.|title=Pair duets in the yellow-naped amazon (Psittaciformes: Amazona auropalliata): Response to playbacks of different dialects.|journal=Ethology|volume=107|issue=1|pages=111–124|doi=10.1046/j.1439-0310.2001.00632.x|pmid=22162899|bibcode=2001Ethol.107..111W }}</ref>
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File:Red-lored parrot (Amazona autumnalis salvini) feeding.jpg|''[[Red-lored parrot|A. autumnalis salvini]]'' (red-lored parrot) feeding
File:Cuban Amazon (Amazona leucocephala)4-4c.jpg|''[[Cuban parrot|A. leucocephala]]'' (Cuban parrot) feeding using its foot
File:Amazona auropalliata -captive-8a.jpg|Two captive [[Yellow-naped parrot|''A. auropalliata'']] (Yellow-naped parrots) feeding
File:Red-lored parrots (Amazona autumnalis salvini) in flight.jpg|Two ''[[Red-lored parrot|A. autumnalis salvini]]'' (red-lored parrots) flying together
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