The Parrot Lick viewed from the blind.
Scarlet Macaw.
Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet (bottom right) with Cobalt-winged Parakeets.
Orange-cheeked Parrot.
Mealy Parrots.
Mealy (centre) and the smaller Yellow-crowned Parrots.
Yellow-crowned Parrots.
Dusky-headed Parakeets.
Mealy (note the whitish "bloom" to their plumage as if dappled with flour), Yellow-crowned and Blue-headed Parrots.
Yellow-crowned Parrots.
No visit to the western Amazon is complete without a visit to a "Parrot-lick". Early in the day parrots and macaws visit a traditional area where the can injest minerals in the mud banks along the river edge or where water trickles down a cliff. Apparently the minerals contain properties that neutralise toxins digested in the everyday diet of parrots.
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