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The Amazon rainforest is a species-rich biome in which thousands of species live, including animals found nowhere else in the world. To date, there is at least 40,000 different kinds of plants, 427 kinds of mammals, 1,300 kinds of birds, 378 kinds of reptiles, more than 400 kinds of amphibians, and around 3,000 freshwater fish are living in Amazon.
The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]
Birds of the Amazon rainforest (9 C, 527 P) F. ... Pages in category "Fauna of the Amazon" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 249 ...
An immense number of bird species live in the Amazon rainforest and river basin (an area which is nominally home to one out of every ten known species of animal). [1] Over 1,300 of these species are types of birds, which accounts for one-third of all bird species in the world.
By discovering and identifying the species that live in certain ecosystems, researchers will be able to better lead conservation efforts to protect animals that are endangered or at risk, Kolmann ...
Scientists working in the Amazon rainforest have discovered a new species of snake, rumored to be the biggest in the world.
The only remaining stronghold is the Amazon rainforest, a region that is rapidly being fragmented by deforestation. [108] Between 2000 and 2012, forest loss in the jaguar range amounted to 83.759 km 2 (32.340 sq mi), with fragmentation increasing in particular in corridors between Jaguar Conservation Units (JCUs). [ 109 ]
Amazon kingfisher; Amazonian antshrike; Amazonian barred woodcreeper; Amazonian black-throated trogon; Amazonian elaenia; Amazonian motmot; Amazonian pygmy owl; Amazonian scrub flycatcher; Amazonian streaked antwren; Amazonian trogon; Amazonian umbrellabird; American pygmy kingfisher; Ash-throated gnateater; Ash-winged antwren; Ashy-headed greenlet