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Yellow-crowned Amazon
Alejandro Bayer Tamayo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via iNaturalist

Parrots & macaws

Yellow-crowned Amazon

Amazona ochrocephala (Gmelin, 1788)

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishYellow-crowned Amazon
DutchGeelvoorhoofdamazone
SpanishLora cabeciamarilla
Chinese黄冠亚马逊鹦鹉
Sranan Tongopopokai (general name for the group)
Scientific nameAmazona ochrocephala (Gmelin, 1788)

About this species

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-crowned amazon. Except in the taxonomic section, the following deals only with the nominate group (including subspecies xantholaema, nattereri and panamensis).They are found in the Amazon basin.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassAves
OrderPsittaciformes
FamilyPsittacidae
GenusAmazona

In Suriname

71Records in Suriname
4iNaturalist observations
1846First record
2026Latest record

Where it has been recorded

  • Nickerie18
  • Sipaliwini17
  • Paramaribo16
  • Saramacca8
  • Para6
  • Wanica1

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

Records by month

All years combined.

Sources & credits

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