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The yellow-headed amazon (Amazona oratrix), also known as the yellow-headed parrot and double yellow-headed amazon, is an endangered amazon parrot of Mexico and northern Central America. Measuring 38–43 centimetres (15–17 in) in length, it is a stocky short-tailed green parrot with a yellow head.
Accipitridae is a family of birds of prey, which includes hawks, eagles, kites, harriers, and Old World vultures. These birds have very large powerful hooked beaks for tearing flesh from their prey, strong legs, powerful talons and keen eyesight. Nineteen species have been recorded in Virginia. White-tailed kite, Elanus leucurus (A)
33 cm (13 in) long, mostly green, white forehead and lores, yellow crown and ear coverts, bare white eye rings. Yellow chin and shoulders. Some red and dark blue in the wing feathers. [66] The Netherlands Antilles, Venezuela [67] Blue-fronted amazon (Amazona aestiva) 38 cm (15 in) long, mostly green, blue forehead and yellow on the face.
The yellow-crowned amazon or yellow-crowned parrot (Amazona ochrocephala) is a species of parrot native to tropical South America, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean. The taxonomy is highly complex and the yellow-headed ( A. oratrix ) and yellow-naped amazon ( A. auropalliata ) are sometimes considered subspecies of the yellow ...
Yellow-headed amazon; Vinaceous-breasted amazon; Red-crowned amazon; Lear's macaw; Sun parakeet; Grey-cheeked parakeet; Red-and-blue lory; Purple-naped lory; Green-thighed parrot; Green racket-tail; Golden-shouldered parrot; Echo parakeet; Grey parrot; Timneh parrot; Perija parakeet; El Oro parakeet; Pfrimer's parakeet; Santa Marta parakeet ...
The birds' range collapsed from east to west with settlement and clearing of the eastern and southern deciduous forests. John J. Audubon commented as early as 1832 on the decline of the birds. The bird was rarely reported outside Florida after 1860. The last reported sighting east of the Mississippi River (except Florida) was in 1878 in Kentucky.
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The IUCN follows HBW taxonomy, and so has not assessed the Tres Marías amazon separately from the yellow-headed amazon sensu lato.The species as a whole is Endangered, with an estimated population of 4700 mature individuals that is believed to be decreasing.