A parrot with unusual blue plumage and a distinctive squawk has been identified in Mexico as a new species.
The blue-winged Amazon has a distinctive shape, colour pattern, call and behaviour and evolved from the White-fronted parrot around 120,000 years ago.
It joins just two parrots from the Amazon parrot family, the red-crowned amazon and lilac-crowned amazon, to be found only in Mexico.
And because of the species' small range and rarity scientists claim they should be classified as endangered.
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