Blue-fronted Amazon Project

Category: Nestlings, Pantanal | Date: Oct 07 2007 | By: admin

Glaucia and Vandir are in the south of Pantanal, investigating a little more about the reproductive biology of the Blue Fronted Parrot. The reproductive season initiates in July, when the couples begin to look for cavities that work as nests; the posture and egg incubation starts in August; the hatching occurs in September, and the nestlings leave their nests in November.
During this period, the Project team stays 15 days per month in the field, monitoring the nestlings with a camera inside the nest, registering their hatch and doing their biometry.

We will come back soon from this field trip with more new and pictures!!

Nest of Blue Fronted Amazon Parrot.

These are cute baby parrots!

This is the extern Veronica, monitoring a nest with a video camera.

Here Glaucia is doing biometry in one nestling.

Glaucia and Vandir monitoring a nest.

Glaucia is monitoring a nest where and adult Blue Fronted Amazon Parrot was predated.

An adult Parrot checking if this cavity would be a good nest!

This couple have found a cavity to initiate their posture.