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Photo by Reini
Location - Costa Rica

Alternative name: Red-lored Amazon

Amazona autumnalis

Includes: Diademed Amazon or Diademed Parrot

[edit] Identification

32-35 cm. Overall green with bright red forehead, yellowish cheeks, blue crown, white eye ring, green tail with yellow-green and blue tips, yellow-gray bill, orange eye, greenish-grey legs. Sexes similar. Juveniles have less yellow on cheeks and less red on forehead.

[edit] Distribution

Resident over almost the entire Caribbean slope to 800m, and on S. Pacific slope to 1000m. E. Mexico to W. Ecuador, C. Brazil.

[edit] Taxonomy

Four subspecies are recognized:^[1]

• A.a. autumnalis - Caribbean slope, Mexico to northern Nicaragua and Bay Islands
• A.a. salvini - northern Nicaragua to southwest Colombia and extreme northwest Venezuela
• A.a. lilacina - northwestern Ecuador
• A.a. diadema - northwestern Brazil

diadema is sometimes accepted as full species, Diademed Amazon.

[edit] Habitat

Humid lowlands and foothills in evergreen and semi-deciduous forests. Common to abundant in partly deforested areas, uncommon in dense mature forest

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes fruits, nuts and seeds. They nest in tree cavities and 3-4 white eggs are laid and incubated for 25-26 days. Chicks stay in the nest from 21 to 70 days.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019

• List of references

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