Red- and blue-headed Amazon Parrots

 

Red-browed Amazon
Red-browed Amazon
The Red-browed Amazon from eastern Brazil used to be classed as a sub-species of the Blue-cheeked Amazon below, but is now considered a separate species.
Amazona rhodocorytha
Red-browed Amazon Red-browed Amazon
   
Blue-cheeked Amazon Blue-cheeked Amazon
Blue-cheeked Amazon from the northeast of South America
Amazona dufresniana
 
Green-cheeked Amazon Green-cheeked Amazon
Green-cheeked Amazon from Mexico, also more appropriately Red-crowned Amazon (since many on this page have green cheeks -- but some also have red crowns)
Amazona viridigenalis
 
Festive Amazon Festive Amazon
Festive Amazon from northern South America (Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Peru)
Amazona festiva (festiva)
 
Bodin's Amazon Bodin's Amazon
Bodin's Amazon is a sub-species of the Festive Amazon above with more blue on its face
Amazona festiva bodini
 
Salvin's Amazon Salvin's Red-lored Amazon
Salvin's (Red-lored) Amazon from Colombia and Venezuela
Amazona autumnalis salvini
 
Red-lored Amazon Red-lored Amazon
Red-lored Amazon from Central America's Caribbean coast
Amazona autumnalis (autumnalis)
Red-lored Amazon Red-lored Amazon
Red-lored Amazon  The juvenile Red-lored Amazon has less yellow on its cheek and less red on its brow 
 
Lilacine Amazon Lilacine Amazon
Lilacine, also called Ecuadorian Red-lored Amazon, from Ecuador
Amazona autumnalis lilacina
 
Yucatan Yellow-lored Amazon Yucatan Yellow-lored Amazon
Yucatan/Yellow-lored Amazon from Mexico, Belize and Honduras, one of the smallest Amazons at some 26 cm length.
Unusually for Amazons, the male, with a white crown and red eye/cheek, has different facial plumage from the female.
Amazona xantholora
Yucatan Yellow-lored Amazon Yucatan Yellow-lored Amazon
 
Spectacled Amazon White-fronted Spectacled Amazon
White-fronted/White-browed/Spectacled Amazon from Central America and Mexico, the smallest Amazon at 24-25 cm.
Males have red "shoulders", one of three Amazons (including Yucatan, above, and Red-spectacled) where males and females can be identified by plumage.
Amazona albifrons
 
Lilac-crowned Amazon Lilac-crowned Amazon
Lilac-crowned Amazon from Mexico
Amazona finschi
 
Diademed Amazon Diademed Amazon
Diademed Amazon from central Brazil, has a slight gold upper nape (the diadem) and black outer beak
Amazona diadema/ Amazona autumnalis diadema
 
Jamaican Amazon Blue-crowned Amazon
Jamaican or Yellow-billed Amazon from Jamaica
Photo kindly provided by Bernhard Leuvering in The Netherlands
Blue-crowned Amazon, also called Mealy or Guatemalan from Central America (Mexico to Honduras) is a subspecies of the Mealy Amazon on the "yellow-headed" page
Amazona collaria Amazona farinosa guatemalae
 
Red-tailed Amazon Red-tailed Amazon
Red-tailed Amazon from southeast Brazil showing off its black, red and yellow tail (German flag)
Amazona brasiliensis
 

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