Amazona ochrocephala (yellow-crowned amazon parrot)

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Subject:	Amazona ochrocephala (yellow-crowned amazon parrot)
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Perroquet verd et rouge de Cayenne
Date 1765-1783?
Author Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon; Edme-Louis Daubenton; Francois Nicolas Martinet
Full title Planches enluminées d'histoire naturelle /
BHL Page URL https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35205139
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Planches_enlumin%C3%A9es_d%27histoire_naturelle_(9932951326).jpg

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. Amazona ochrocephala has been introduced to Grand Cayman. As most other amazon parrots, it has a short squarish tail and primarily green plumage. It has dark blue tips to the secondaries and primaries and a red wing speculum, carpal edge (leading edge of the wing at the "shoulder") and base of the outer tail feathers.

Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Genus: Amazona
Species: Amazona ochrocephala (Gmelin, 1788)

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