Amazona

Amazon parrot is the common name for a parrot of the genus Amazona. These are medium-sized parrots native to the New World ranging from South America to Mexico and the Caribbean.

Most amazon parrots are predominantly green, with accenting colors that depend on the species and can be quite vivid. They feed primarily on seeds, nuts, and fruits, supplemented by leafy matter.

Many amazon parrots have a remarkable ability to mimic human speech and other sounds. Partly because of this, they are popular as pets or companion parrots, and a small industry has developed in breeding parrots in captivity for this market. This popularity has led to many parrots being taken from the wild to the extent that some species have become threatened. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora treaty has made the capture of wild parrots for the pet trade illegal in an attempt to help protect wild populations.

Amazon: Black-Billed

Black-Billed Amazon males, the bill is very dark grey, almost black, becoming paler towards the base. The cere is very dark grey, as is the skin around the eyes, and the iris is dark brown. This bird’s plumage is predominantly green, paler and more yellowish on the underparts. The feathers of the neck are edged …

Amazon: Blue-Cheeked

Blue-Cheeked Amazon coloring is mostly green, with blue cheeks from around the eye to the neck (less on young), a yellow-orange wing speculum, a yellowish crown, and orange lores (the region between the eye and bill on the side of a bird’s head).

Amazon: Blue-fronted

Blue-frontend amazon have blue feathers on the forehead above the beak and yellow on the face and crown. Distribution of blue and yellow varies greatly among individuals. Unlike most other Amazona parrots, its beak is mostly black. There is no overt sexual dimorphism in plumage to the human eye, but analysis of the feathers using …

Amazon: Cuban

Cuban Amazon is mainly green with some blue feathers in its wings. The green feathers are edged with a terminal black rim. Its lower face, chin and throat are rosy pink, and its forehead and eye-rings are white. The extent of the various colours of the head, the extent of the rosy pink on the …

Amazon: Festive

Festive Amazon plumage of this parrot is generally green; although the nape feathers are faintly edged with black and the flight feathers are edged yellowish-green. It has a narrow dark red band to forehead and lores (the regions between the eyes and bill on the side of a bird’s head). The area above the eye …

Amazon: Green-Cheecked

Green-Cheecked amazon Male-body green, with soft black margins to feathers of nape to mantle and upper breast; dark red forehead, crown and lores; purple/blue band from above the eye down the sides of the neck; at bases of secondary feathers 1-5 is red, the remainder green; green tail. Bill dull yellow. Eye ring pale grey, …

Amazon: Hispanolian

Plumage green; most feathers edged with blue; white forehead and around eyes; some blue patches on cheeks and crown; a little red under the chin; ear coverts black; has red on abdomen; blue wind coverts; green edging to outer webs; yellowish green under tail; tail upper-side green with yellow tips; outer tail feathers red at …

Amazon: Imperial

Adult plumage is very colorful and mostly darkly colored: the chest is a dark shade of purple, and the upper-parts and feathers are a dark shade of green, with black-edged feather tips. The eye-ring is dark brown, with the eye being a mix of orange and red. Juvenile appearance does not differ much, with a …

Amazon: Lilac-Crowned

Bright green parrot with red forehead and lilac crown and sides of neck. Primaries tipped with bluish violet, red patch on outer secondaries, beak pale horn and legs pale grey. Ages and sexes similar, but juvenile has brownish rather than amber eye

Amazon: Mealy

The Mealy Amazon is mainly green. The back and nape often have a whitish tinge; almost as if it had been covered in a thin layer of flour (“meal”; hence its name). The distal half of the tail is paler and more yellow than the basal half, thus resulting in a distinctly bi-coloured look. In …

Amazon: Orange-Winged

Orange-Winged Amazon adults forehead, crown and forecheeks yellow; lores and band between eyes violet/blue; throat yellow/green tinged with blue; orange bases of secondary feathers 1 to 3, the remainder green tipped with blue; central tail feathers green, side tail feathers green tipped yellow/green, the orange/red on inner webs of wings banded in centre with dark …

Amazon: Puerto-Rican

Puerto-Rican Amazon males and females have predominantly green plumage, though their feathers have blue edges. The primary flight feathers of the wings and the main covert feathers are dark blue. The color of the feathers on the underside varies depending on the body part: the feathers on the underside of the wings, which can be …

Amazon: Red-Browned

The red-browed amazon has a bright red crown fading to purplish-brown at the back. The cheeks and throat are blue and the wing and body plumage is green with dark markings on the back of the neck. Black and red patches can be seen on the wings when they are spread and the tail feathers …

Amazon: Red-Lored

The plumage is primarily green, with a red forehead and, in some subspecies, yellow cheeks (sometimes with red spots). The crown is blue. Adult males and females do not differ in plumage. Juveniles have less yellow on the cheeks, less red on the forehead, and dark irises.

Amazon: Red-Necked

The red-necked amazon gets its name because of its orange and reddish feathers found on its lower throat. The bird also sometimes has blue feathers on its forehead, around the eyes and its head. Although, the blue feathers verge to wither away to gray feathers at its upper breast.The rest of its body is covered …

Amazon: Red-Spectacled

Red-Spectacled Amazon Male-all green, darker on back and wings, the feathers edged with black; red on forehead, crown to lores and around eyes; red thighs, bend of wing, carpal edge, alula, and primary coverts; tail green, tipped widely yellow/green, and outer side tail feathers with red spot at base of inner web. Bill yellow/horn. Eye …

Amazon: Red-Tailed

Red-Tailed Amazon has a broad red band on its tail, but as it largely is limited to the inner webs of the feathers, it is mainly visible from below or when the tail is spread open. Additionally, the tail has a broad yellow tip, and the outer rectrices are dark purplish-blue at the base. The …

Amazon: Scaly-Naped

Scaly-Naped Amazon both adults dark green feathers on crown to nape, tinged dull grey/blue and tipped with dull black; red bases to secondary feathers 1 to 3, the remainder green; yellow carpal edge, mixed with orange/red; tail green with wide yellow/green band, side tail feathers banded with red and blue/purple near end, the most outside …

Amazon: St. Lucia

The general plumage is green, with each feather having a blackish edging. The lores (the regions between the eyes and bill on the side of a bird’s head), forehead and forecrown are violet-blue turning pale blue on the back of the crown. Most parrots of this species have a variable red band to the breast. …

Amazon: St. Vincent

St. Vincent Amazon is a long, mostly green, multi-colored amazon parrot with a yellowish white, blue and green head, greenish-bronze upperparts, grey feet, reddish eye, and violet blue-green wings. Its tail feathers are blue with broad yellow tips. There is a less yellow-brown morph and a less common green morph.It has grey feet and reddish …

Amazon: Tucuman

The green feathers of the upper-body have black margins. There is red plumage on the forehead and fore-crown, and the red does not extend around the white eye-rings. It has red primary wing feathers and no red at the bend of the wing. It has orange thighs and red at base of the green tail. …

Amazon: Vinaceous

Vinaceous Amazon adults in general green with feathers edged dusty black; red lores and frontal band; green long feathers of hindneck and sides of neck, widely edged with pale blue and tipped with dusty black; lilac/red breast, variably washed with blue, the feathers edged with dusty black; green carpal edge, variably marked with yellow and …

Amazon: White-Cheeked

The White-Cheeked amazon is mostly green, with a narrow white strip at the base of the bill, narrow white eye-ring, and some blue and red present on the outermost flight feathers.[1] Although it resembles the mealy amazon, the Kawall’s amazon can easily be recognised by its white patch of skin at the base of the …

Amazon: White-Fronted

White Fronted Amazon is named for the bright white patch of feathers on its forehead, although the amount of white varies from individual to individual. They have mostly green plumage with some blue colouring on their outspread wings. They have bright red colouring around their eyes (in some individuals almost like spectacles) and blue colouring …

Amazon: Yellow-Billed

Yellow-Billed Amazon plumage is mostly green with pink over the throat, upper breast and sides of neck,and blue in the larger wing feathers. Feathers over the ears are dark blue-green.The bare white eye-rings are surrounded by a narrow rim of white plumage, which continues as a narrow band of white over the forehead.Plumage over the …

Amazon: Yellow-Crowned

As most other Amazon parrots, Yellow-Crowned Amazon has a short squarish tail and a 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.[2] The red and dark blue sections are often …

Amazon: Yellow-headed

These large, mainly green parrots have a bright yellow head, which, depending on the subspecies can extend down the throat onto the upper breast. Sexes are similar, however juvenile birds will be solid green with little to no yellow on the head.

Amazon: Yellow-Shouldered

It has a whitish forehead and lores, and a yellow crown, ocular region and – often – ear coverts and chin. The bare eye-ring is white. The thighs and the bend of the wing (“shoulder”) are yellow, but both can be difficult to see. The throat, cheeks and belly often have a bluish tinge. As …