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Puerto Rican parrot (Amazona vittata) populations have been re-introduced into the forest since 1983 as part of a conservation program by the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. The forest is also home to the José Luis Vivaldi Lugo Aviary, dedicated to the breeding of ...
The Puerto Rican amazon was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. [3] The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. [4]
El Yunque is composed of four different forest vegetation areas: Tabonuco Forest, Palo Colorado Forest, Sierra Palm Forest, and the Dwarf forest. El Yunque forest supports a vast array of animal and plant life that varies depending on the altitude range in the rainforest. Skyline of the Sierra palm tree forest in El Yunque National Forest from ...
El Yunque National Forest, a rainforest in eastern Puerto Rico (formerly, Caribbean National Forest) El Yunque (Puerto Rico) , the second-tallest mountain within El Yunque National Forest Organizations
El Yunque or El Yunque Peak (Spanish: Pico El Yunque) (Taíno: Yukiyu [1]) is a mountain located fully within the boundaries of the El Yunque National Forest, part of the U.S. Forest Service, which is the only tropical rainforest under the U.S. Forest Service jurisdiction. It is located in the municipality of Río Grande.
Artistic representation of the extinct Puerto Rican shrew. The richness of mammals in Puerto Rico, like many other islands, is low relative to mainland regions. The present-day native terrestrial mammal fauna of Puerto Rico is composed of only 13 species, all of which are bats. 18 marine mammals, including manatees, dolphins and whales, occur in Puerto Rican waters. [13]
The International Institute of Tropical Forestry (Instituto Internacional de Dasonomía Tropical) [1] is a program of the United States Forest Service that was founded in 1939. [2] It is headquartered in Rio Piedras , Puerto Rico , on the grounds of the University of Puerto Rico 's Agricultural Experimental Station. [ 3 ]
The elfin forest at El Yunque National Forest is characterized by high rainfall and humidity, low temperatures and insolation, and constant winds. It is found at mountain summits and is primarily composed of dense shrub and small trees with moss and epiphyte growth in its plants and floor.