- Where to see one
- 3 U.S. zoos in our directory hold yellow-crowned amazon, confirmed against each zoo's own animal list.
Conservation status
Not Evaluated
This species has not been assessed for the IUCN Red List, so it sits outside the threat scale entirely.
About the yellow-crowned amazon
The yellow-crowned amazon is a parrot native to tropical South America, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago, found in the Amazon basin and the Guianas. It lives in humid and dry tropical forest, woodland, mangroves and savannas, and also on cultivated land and in suburbs, mainly in the lowlands. Adults are 33 to 38 cm long and mostly green, with a short squarish tail, a white eye-ring and yellow on the crown. Red and dark blue wing and tail markings are often hidden when perched. Pairs or flocks of up to 30 eat fruits, nuts, seeds, berries, blossoms and leaf buds, and larger groups gather at clay licks.
Yellow-crowned Amazon facts
- A wild colony of around 60 has lived in Stuttgart, Germany, since the mid-1980s.
- Its taxonomy has been called a taxonomic headache, with yellow-headed and yellow-naped amazons sometimes treated as subspecies.
- Chicks leave the nest about 60 days after hatching, following roughly 26 days of incubation.
- Nests are in hollows in trees, palms or termite mounds.
Where to see yellow-crowned amazon in the U.S.
3 zoos across 2 states
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