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Yellow-billed Amazon  

Also Known As: Yellow-billed Parrot, Red-throated Amazon, Jamaican Amazon
 
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Yellow-billed Amazon parrot

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Did You Know?
The Yellow-billed Amazon is the only Amazon parrot with a yellow bill - most other Amazons have either black or buff coloured beaks.

Species Profile
Genus:
Amazona

Species:
collaria

Size: Adult Weight:
28cm (11 in) 260g (9.1 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Both adults in general green, with yellowish underparts; black edging on feathers of crown to mantle and sides of head; white forehead and line around eyes; dull blue forecrown; pale blue lores and upper cheeks; blue/grey ear coverts tinted with green; rose/red throat, forecheeks and sides of neck; green tail with red at base. Bill yellow. Eye ring white, eye brown.

Colourization Juvenile: As in adults but with grey markings on upper mandible.

Call: Calls made in flight bugling notes, lower in pitch than those of Black-billed Amazon and last syllable prolonged. Also high-pitched notes while perched.

Recent Academic Research: Google Scholar - search results

 

Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E314.htm&Pic=314_1.JPG

CITES http://www.cites.org/eng/resources/species.html

BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1661&m=0

Parrots: Status Survey and Conservation Plan 2000-2004, Snyder, McGowan, Gilardi and Grajal, 2000.

Parrots: A Guide to Parrots of the World, Juniper and Parr, 1998.

Parrots of the World, Forshaw and Cooper, 1977.

Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.

Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.