SUPER DUPER interesting!!! They did the genome of the Blue Fronted zon and found that parrots might be as different from all other birds as humans are to all other primates! WOW!!!!!
First two are articles, third link is actual results - enjoy!!!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/scie ... evity.html
http://www.sci-news.com/genetics/genome ... 06697.html
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fu ... 60-9822(18)31417-9
PS - they call them 'Turquoise-fronted' but we know them as Blue Fronted and they are not just from Brazil, as they state on one of the articles, they are in Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay.