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The yellow-naped amazon is distinguished by its green forehead and crown and a yellow band across the lower nape (back part of neck) and hindneck. The eyes are orange, beak is dark gray and is paler towards the base of the upper mandible. The feet are also dark gray. Yellow-naped amazons inhabit dry forest and mangrove habitat of the tropics ...
The yellow-headed amazon ( Amazona oratrix ), also known as the yellow-headed parrot and double yellow-headed amazon, is an endangered amazon parrot of Mexico and northern Central America. Measuring 38–43 centimetres (15–17 in) in length, it is a stocky short-tailed green parrot with a yellow head. It prefers to live in mangrove forests or ...
Amazon parrots are parrots in the genus Amazona. They are medium-sized, short-tailed parrots native to the Americas, with their range extending from South America to Mexico and the Caribbean. Amazona is one of the 92 genera of parrots that make up the order Psittaciformes and is in the family Psittacidae, one of three families of true parrots.
The yellow-crowned amazon or yellow-crowned parrot ( Amazona ochrocephala) 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 ( A. oratrix) and yellow-naped amazon ( A. auropalliata) are sometimes considered subspecies of the yellow ...
Yellow-naped amazon (Amazona auropalliata) Mostly green, yellow band across the lower nape and hindneck. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua: Yellow-crowned amazon (Amazona ochrocephala) 33–38 cm (13–15 in) long, mostly green, extent of the yellow on the head varies between subspecies.
The yellow-shouldered amazon is now placed with around thirty other species in the genus Amazona that was introduced by the French naturalist René Lesson in 1830. [8] [9] The genus name is a Latinized version of the name Amazone given to these parrot in the 18th century by the Comte de Buffon , who believed they were native to Amazonian jungles.
The yellow-billed amazon ( Amazona collaria ), also called the yellow-billed parrot or Jamaican amazon, is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae. It is a predominantly green parrot with a short tail and pink throat and neck. It is endemic to Jamaica, where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests ...
Panama amazons are extremely playful, can be excellent talkers and tend to be loud at times; much like the (nominate) yellow-crowned, yellow-headed and yellow-naped amazons. Though their body language is the same, Panama amazons are much less likely to become physically aggressive.
Trinomial name. Amazona farinosa farinosa. ( Boddaert, 1783) The southern mealy amazon or southern mealy parrot ( Amazona farinosa farinosa) is among the largest parrots in the genus Amazona, the amazon parrots. It is a mainly green parrot with a total length of 38–41 cm (15–16 in). It is native to tropical Central and South America.
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