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Yellow-crowned Amazon

Amazona ochrocephala

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernOmnivoreForestCavity nestLarge · 477 g
Yellow-crowned Amazon (Amazona ochrocephala), photo 1
Photo: Aramburu Carlos · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-crowned Amazon (Amazona ochrocephala), photo 2
Photo: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada · CC BY 2.0
Yellow-crowned Amazon (Amazona ochrocephala), photo 3
Photo: Petruss · Public domain
Yellow-crowned Amazon (Amazona ochrocephala), photo 4
Photo: Marcio Santos Ferreira · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-crowned Amazon (Amazona ochrocephala), photo 5
Photo: Marcio Santos Ferreira · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-crowned Amazon (Amazona ochrocephala), photo 6
Photo: Aramburu Carlos · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-crowned Amazon (Amazona ochrocephala), photo 7
Photo: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada · CC BY 2.0
Yellow-crowned Amazon (Amazona ochrocephala), photo 8
Photo: Petruss · Public domain
Yellow-crowned Amazon (Amazona ochrocephala), photo 9
Photo: kent MacElwee from San Francisco, US · CC BY 2.0

ID tip

Subspecies in the nominate group (including subspecies xantholaema, nattereri and panamensis) have a total length of 33–38 cm (14–15 in). As most other amazon parrots, it has a short squarish tail and primarily green plumage. It has dark blue tips to the secondaries and primaries and a red wing speculum, carpal edge (leading edge of the wing at the "shoulder") and base of the outer tail feathers.

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When to see the Yellow-crowned Amazon

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Yellow-crowned Amazon

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 16 countries with regular records, and 4 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Colombia Venezuela Panama Peru Brazil Ecuador Guyana Trinidad & Tobago Bolivia Curaçao Cayman Islands Costa Rica Suriname Barbados French Guiana Singapore

Recorded as a rare visitor in United States, Spain, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent & Grenadines.

About the Yellow-crowned Amazon

The yellow-crowned amazon or yellow-crowned parrot is a species of parrot native to tropical South America, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean. The taxonomy is highly complex and the yellow-headed and yellow-naped amazon are sometimes considered subspecies of the yellow-crowned amazon. Except in the taxonomic section, the following deals only with the nominate group .They are found in the Amazon basin.

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Easily confused with

Orange-winged Amazon (Amazona amazonica) Orange-winged AmazonAmazona amazonicaThe orange-winged amazon is a mainly green parrot about 33 cm (13 in) long and weighing about 340 g. Red-crowned Amazon (Amazona viridigenalis) Red-crowned AmazonAmazona viridigenalisTheir appearance is generally green with the most notable features being a bright red forehead and crown, dark blue streak behind the eyes, and light green cheeks. Turquoise-fronted Amazon (Amazona aestiva) Turquoise-fronted AmazonAmazona aestivaThe blue-fronted amazon is a mainly green parrot about 38 cm (15 in) long.

Side by side: Mealy Amazon vs Yellow-crowned Amazon · Orange-winged Amazon vs Yellow-crowned Amazon · Red-crowned Amazon vs Yellow-crowned Amazon · Turquoise-fronted Amazon vs Yellow-crowned Amazon

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