Amazon parrot

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any of several tropical American green parrots of the genus Amazona, popular as pets.

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How to use Amazon parrot in a sentence

The Amazon biography for an author named Papa Faal mentions both Gambia and lists a military record that matches the FBI report.
The Shadowy U.S. Veteran Who Tried to Overthrow a Country|Jacob Siegel|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It looks like Amazon is on track to get additional Pentagon contracts as well.
How Amazon Became Santa’s Sweatshop|Sally Kohn|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Atlantic has reported extensively on the at least $600 million Amazon stands to be paid for handling CIA data.
How Amazon Became Santa’s Sweatshop|Sally Kohn|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Netflix and Amazon, two companies responsible for much of our contemporary TV-viewing habits, have taken things to the next level.
Binge Watching is the New Bonding Time|The Daily Beast|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Crowd labor platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk operate with few rules and little protection for workers.
Amazon’s Turkers Kick Off the First Crowdsourced Labor Guild|Kevin Zawacki|December 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Some of the tribes inhabiting the district of the lower Amazon indulge in snuff-taking.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
He stooped to knot up his long, wet hair, and the parrot fluttered to his shoulder.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
Hephzibah seldom spoke; perhaps, like the parrot in the story, she thought the more.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3)|Charles James Wills
All the parrot tribe in Brazil is beautiful: but neither parrots nor parroquets talk well.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil|Maria Graham
He has been teasing my parrot in its cage, and has plucked so many of its feathers that it now looks like a beaked rat.
Kari the Elephant|Dhan Gopal Mukerji