Yucatan Amazon (Amazona xantholora) | Photos and ID

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WoodlandCavity nestMedium · 217 g

Yucatan Amazon (Amazona xantholora), photo 1 — Photo: Eddie · CC BY 4.0

Yucatan Amazon (Amazona xantholora), photo 2 — Photo: Tommy Andriollo · CC BY 4.0

Yucatan Amazon (Amazona xantholora), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Luis Mora, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Yucatan Amazon (Amazona xantholora), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Blake Ross, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Yucatan Amazon (Amazona xantholora), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Barry Cottam, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Yucatan Amazon (Amazona xantholora), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Barry Cottam, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Yucatan Amazon (Amazona xantholora), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Yucatan Amazon (Amazona xantholora), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Tommy Andriollo, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Yucatan Amazon (Amazona xantholora), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Yves Bas, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

The Yucatan amazon is 25.5 to 28 cm (10 to 11 in) long and weighs 200 to 232 g (7.1 to 8.2 oz). It is mostly green. Adult males are chrome yellow on their lores and the sides of their forehead; the rest of the forehead and most of their crown are white. The area around and behind their eye is red and their ear coverts are dusky. Their rear crown is greenish blue, their nape green, and the rest of their upperparts and their underparts are yellowish green. Most of the body feathers have black edges that give a scalloped appearance. Voice: The Yucatan amazon is highly vocal except when feeding. A characteristic call by pairs is a barking "rek-rek-rek-rek or rek-rek rek-rek rrehr". Other calls include "a rolled reeeah-h and kyeh-kyeh keeei-i-iirr, and screechy ree-o-rak zeek ree-o-rah."

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When to see the Yucatan Amazon

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Yucatan Amazon

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 1 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.

Belize Guatemala Mexico

Recorded as a rare visitor in United States.

About the Yucatan Amazon

The Yucatan amazon, also known as the yellow-lored amazon, Yucatan parrot or yellow-lored parrot is a species of bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is found in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.

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Easily confused with

Hispaniolan AmazonAmazona ventralisThey have bright green feathers with blue edges on most of them.

Vinaceous-breasted AmazonAmazona vinaceaThe vinaceous-breasted amazon is 30 to 36 cm (12 to 14 in) long.

Tucuman AmazonAmazona tucumanaThe Tucumán amazon is about 31 cm (12 in) long and weighs 250 to 280 g (8.8 to 9.9 oz).

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