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Red-crowned amazons usually have horn colored beaks and ceres but these can sometimes have black highlights. Their legs are beige or gray. Their legs are beige or gray. They are approximately 11–13 inches (28–33 cm) in length from the beak to the tip of the tail feathers with a wingspan of 15–16 inches (38–41 cm).
The lilacine amazon is a small parrot, approximately 34 cm long when mature, with primarily green plumage. Like the red-lored amazon, it has red lores and yellow cheeks; its distinguishing features include a fully black beak, and lilac-tipped feathers on its crown. [41] [42] Western Ecuador to extreme south-western Colombia. [42] Diademed amazon
[16]: 21 Male and female amazon parrots are roughly the same size, though males can be larger at times [17]: 6 - most amazon parrots do not show sexual dimorphism, exceptions being the white-fronted amazon, [18] Yucatan amazon [19] and the turquoise-fronted amazon, the latter species being sexually dimorphic when viewed in the ultraviolet ...
Amazon parrots — parrots of the genus Amazona ... Red-crowned amazon; Red-lored amazon; ... White-fronted amazon; Y.
The white-fronted amazon (Amazona albifrons) also known as the white-fronted parrot, or spectacled amazon parrot, [2] is a Central American species of parrot. They can imitate a range from 30 to 40 different sounds. Like other large parrots, the white-fronted parrot has a long potential life span, usually around 40 years.
A. a. salvini at Cana Blanca Wildlife Sanctuary, Costa Rica A captive-bred red-lored parrot chick at the age of 6 weeks. The red-lored amazon or red-lored parrot (Amazona autumnalis) is a species of amazon parrot, native to tropical regions of the Americas, from eastern Mexico south to Ecuador where it occurs in humid evergreen to semi-deciduous forests up to 1,100 m altitude.
Two blue-crowned mealy amazons eating banana in Guatemala. The northern mealy amazon has a total length of about 38–41 cm (15–16 in) [2] [3] and weighs 540–700 g (19–25 oz). It has a relatively short and squarish tail, as do the other members of the Amazona genus. The northern mealy amazon is mainly green.
A mealy amazon (left) with two yellow-crowned amazons (right and center) The southern 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 ...