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40 cm (16 in) long, mostly green, multi-coloured with a yellowish-white, blue and green head, greenish-bronze upperparts, grey feet, orange irises, and violet blue-green wings and tail feathers. There is a yellow-brown morph and a less common green morph. [81] The Caribbean island of Saint Vincent in the Lesser Antilles [82]
The palm cockatoo is 55 to 60 cm (22 to 24 in) in length and weighs 910–1,200 g (2.01–2.65 lb). [18] It may be the largest cockatoo species and largest parrot in Australia, although large races of yellow-tailed black cockatoos and sulphur-crested cockatoos broadly overlap in size.
Most amazon parrots are predominantly green, with contrasting colors on parts of the body such as the crown, face and flight feathers; these colours vary by species. [13]: 8 They are medium- to large-sized parrots, measuring between 23–45 cm (9– 17 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) long, and have short, rounded tails and wings.
Its plumage is mostly green with pink over the throat, upper breast and sides of neck, [8] and blue in the larger wing feathers. [9] Feathers over the ears are dark blue-green. [ 8 ] The bare white eye-rings are surrounded by a narrow rim of white plumage, which continues as a narrow band of white over the forehead. [ 8 ]
The orange-winged amazon is a mainly green parrot about 33 cm (13 in) long and weighing about 340 g. It has blue and yellow feathers on its head which varies in extent between individuals. The upper mandible is partly horn colored (gray) and partly dark-gray. It has orange feathers in the wings and tail, which can be seen when in flight.
Captives commonly are heavier. It is among the largest parrots in the Americas, mainly being surpassed by the large macaws. It has a relatively short and square shaped tail, as do the other members of the Amazona genus. A mealy amazon (left) with two yellow-crowned amazons (right and center) The southern mealy amazon is mainly green.
The lilac-crowned amazon (Amazona finschi), also known as lilac-crowned parrot, Finsch's parrot or Finsch's amazon, is a parrot endemic to the Pacific slopes of Mexico. Also known as Finsch's amazon , it is characterised by green plumage, a maroon forehead, and a violet-blue crown and neck.
The green parakeet (Psittacara holochlorus), green conure, or Mexican green conure [4] is a New World parrot. As defined by the International Ornithological Committee (IOC), it is native to Mexico and southern Texas in the Rio Grande Valley.