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Species Profile

Genus:
Amazona

Species:
xanthops

Size:	Adult Weight:
27cm (10.5 in)	260g (9.1 oz)

Races including nominate:
one, with a green morph and yellow morph

Colourization Adult: Green morph: both adults green in colour, the feathers widely edged darker green; yellow forehead and crown to around eyes and cheeks; yellow/orange ear coverts; deep orange sides of breast to flanks and axillary feathers; green tail with orange/red at base. Bill dull yellow with grey along ridge of upper mandible; pink/red cere. Eye ring white. Eye yellow. Yellow morph: male-head and neck entirely yellow; yellow/orange ear coverts; green upper breast washed with yellow, the feathers widely edged with darker green; dark yellow lower breast and upper abdomen, becoming orange/red on sides of breast to flanks, axillaries and inner lesser underwing coverts; yellow/green tail with red at base; pink/red cere and unfeathered lores. Female-yellow/green lower breast and upper abdomen, the feathers widely edged darker green.

Colourization Juvenile: Green morph: duller than adults, with yellow confined to forehead, forecrown and area around eyes to ear coverts; rest of head green; green underparts, the feathers widely edged darker green. Eye brown. Yellow morph: as in adult female but duller, with yellow confined to forehead, crown, and area around eyes to cheeks; rest of head green. Eye brown.

Call: Calls made in flight are raucous; at rest softer and more musical.

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