Red-lored Amazon

About the Red-lored Amazon

The red-lored amazon or red-lored parrot (Amazona autumnalis) is a species of amazon parrot, native to tropical regions of the Americas, from eastern Mexico south to Ecuador where it occurs in humid evergreen to semi-deciduous forests up to 1,100 m altitude. It is absent from the Pacific side of Central America north of Costa Rica. Not originally known from El Salvador, a pair - perhaps escaped from captivity - nested successfully in 1995 and 1996 in the outskirts of San Salvador and the species might expand its range permanently into that country in the future. This species has also established feral populations in several California cities.

Source: Wikipedia

Classification

Scientific name

Amazona autumnalis

Family

New World and African Parrots

Order

Psittaciformes

Similar species

Other members of the new world and african parrots family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.

• Barred Parakeet Bolborhynchus lineola
• Black-capped Parakeet Pyrrhura rupicola
• Black-headed Parrot Pionites melanocephalus
• Blue-and-yellow Macaw Ara ararauna
• Blue-crowned Parakeet Thectocercus acuticaudatus
• Blue-headed Parrot Pionus menstruus
• Brown-hooded Parrot Pyrilia haematotis
• Burrowing Parakeet Cyanoliseus patagonus
• Carolina Parakeet Conuropsis carolinensis
• Chestnut-fronted Macaw Ara severus
• Crimson-fronted Parakeet Psittacara finschi
• Dusky-headed Parakeet Aratinga weddellii