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Yellow-shouldered Amazon  

Also Known As: Yellow-winged Amazon (Parrot), Yellow-shouldered Parrot
 
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Captive Yellow-shouldered Amazon in a garden tree

Credit: (c) Sam Williams
 
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As juveniles the Yellow-shouldered Amazon may be kept in colonies, but must be separated into pairs once older due to their aggressiveness.

Species Profile
Genus:
Amazona

Species:
barbadensis

Size: Adult Weight:
33cm (12.8 in) 270g (9.4 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Both adults: green body colour with fine black scalloping on feathers; white forehead, forecrown and lores; yellow hindcrown to area around eyes and upper cheeks; yellow thighs; bend of wing yellow; red wing speculum across feather bases of secondaries 1-4; green tail with orange/red hidden in feather bases. Bill horn coloured. Eye ring pale grey. Eye orange/red.

Colourization Juvenile: As in adult but usually duller in colour with less yellow on head; forehead white occasionally tinted with blue. Bill grey/white washed with dark grey. Eye brownish.

Call: Calls loud and raucous; less musical than other Amazons.

Recent Academic Research: Google Scholar - search results

 

Content Sources:

Article "Yellow-shouldered Amazon," by Susan Clubb, DVM http://www.cyberparrots.com/aysh.html

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

BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1677&m=0

Internet Bird Collection http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/

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

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

Parrots of the World, Forshaw and Cooper, 1977.

Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.

Genus Amazona, Stoodley and Stoodley, 1990

Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.

Psittacine Aviculture, Schubot, Clubb and Clubb, 1992.