How long is the Amazon? This is a "40 cm"- long Amazon. The St. Vincent Amazon (Amazona guildingii), also known as St. Vincent Parrot. WWF maximum cards / maxicards / dorincards from St.Vincent.

"The St. Vincent Amazon (Amazona guildingii), also known as St. Vincent Parrot is a large, approximately 40 cm long, multi-colored amazon parrot with a yellowish white, blue and green head, greenish-bronze upperparts plumage, and violet blue-green wings."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Vincent_Parrot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LocationSaintVincentAndTheGrenadines.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines-CIA_WFB_Map.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kingstown.jpg

"Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (pronounced /seɪnt ˈvɪnsənt æn ðə ɡrɛnəˈdiːnz/ ( listen)) is a country in the Lesser Antilles chain, namely in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lie at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean. 

It is also known as "Yurumein" amongst the Garifuna people^{[citation needed]}. 

Its 389-square-kilometre (150 sq mi) territory consists of the main island of Saint Vincent and the northern two-thirds of the Grenadines, which are a chain of smaller islands stretching south from Saint Vincent Island to Grenada. 

To the north of St. Vincent lies St. Lucia, to the east Barbados. 

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is densely populated (over 300 inhabitants/km²) with its 120,000 people. 

Its capital is Kingstown, also its main port. 

The country has a French and British colonial history and is now part of the Commonwealth of Nations and CARICOM."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines

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Happy Blue Monday! (meme)

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Spring's "teen" brusque arrival is near! "The Boss" of all 4 seasons. Maximum card / maxicard / dorincard that I created in 2006, with a postcard and matching stamp showing a "Cherry Blossom Festival"-view and the Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C.

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Drill, Baby Drill...and Mom Drill, too! The Drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus) - WWF maximum cards / maxicards / dorincards from Cameroon.

"The drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus) is a primate of the Cercopithecidae (Old-world Monkeys) family, closely related to the baboons and even more closely to the mandrill.

The drill is similar in appearance to the Mandrill, but lacks the colorful face. They are semi-terrestrial monkeys, exhibiting extreme sexual dimorphism with males weighing up to 45 kg (100 lbs) - three times the size of females. They are semi-nomadic seasonally and little is known of their behavior or ecology in the wild.

Drills are found only in Cross River State, Nigeria; South Western Cameroon; and on Bioko Island, part of Equatorial Guinea. Their entire world range is less than 40,000 km², smaller than Switzerland.

Drills are among Africa’s most endangered mammals, and are listed by the IUCN as the highest conservation priority of all African primates.^[2] Drill numbers have been declining in all known habitat areas for decades as a result of illegal commercial hunting, habitat destruction, and human development: as few as 3,000 drills may remain in the wild, the highest population estimate is 8,000. Drills have also been declining in zoos internationally."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drill_(mammal)

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You will find PINK zones, even on the black-faced Drill...:)

Happy Pink Saturday!

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