Abstract
One of the rarest Amazons in collections is the daidemed Amazon due to its limited habitat in northwestern Brazil. In my many years (over forty) of keeping and breeding Amazons, the 2. 2 adults we have here, and acquired in 1985 and 1986 respectively, are the first I have ever seen. Rosemary Low saw them here in November, 1987 and felt they probably represented the only ones in the United States or Europe. Her position as head curator of the famed Loro Parque in the Canary Islands and her acknowledgement as one of aviculture's foremost writers...
