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Yellow-lored Amazon
Also Known As: Yellow-lored Parrot, Yucatan Amazon or Parrot
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Did You Know?
In the wild the Yellow-lored Amazon looks more streamlined in its body shape than other amazons do, suggesting it spends more time on the wing.
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Not AvailableSpecies Profile
Genus:Amazona
Species:
xantholora
| Size: | Adult Weight: |
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| 26cm (10 in) | 200-232g (7-8.1 oz) |
Races including nominate:
one
Colourization Adult: Male-green plumage, with feathers strongly edged dusty black; white forehead and forecrown; yellow lores; area around eyes to upper cheeks red; ear coverts black; primary coverts red; tail green with red at base. Bill dull yellow. Eye ring pale grey. Eye yellow/brown. Female-soft blue forehead and forecrown; faint red underneath eye to upper cheeks; ear coverts dark grey; green primary coverts intermixed with red.
Colourization Juvenile: As in adult female but with yellow lores scattered with green; upper cheeks green with sprinkling of red. Eye grey.
Call: Calls loud and varied. Include squealing, barking, harsh crack, crack notes, loud trilling notes, short sharp sounds and trumpeting notes.
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Content Sources:
BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1664&m=0
CITES http://www.cites.org/eng/resources/species.html
xeno-canto America http://www.xeno-canto.org/index.php
Parrots: A Guide to Parrots of the World, Juniper and Parr, 1998.
Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.
Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.
Psittacine Aviculture, Schubot, Clubb and Clubb, 1992.
Genus Amazona, Stoodley and Stoodley, 1990.
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