Amazon species in 5 min.

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This link just popped up in my recommended list for YouTube.

I do wish they listed the common name as well as the Latin name.

Enjoy.

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That is one of the most complete presentation of Amazona that I have seen in a very longtime. It is the best listing of the Island Amazons, I recall ever seeing.

Thank You!

Fully agree regarding the need to provide the common names.
 
When I will have time I can translate latin to English names, now I will not make it before my supper;)
 
Amazona Barbadesis always jumps at me, latin or not ( it's a Salty boy). But some really rare ones too.
 
As I mentioned I did list of English names, some of them I've heard for the first time, other ones I updated their classification. I used "main" names, I didn't write all names which I found (I mean synonyms)

Amazona leucocephala - Cuban amazon (no English subspecies names)
Amazona ventralis - Hispaniolan amazon
Amazona collaria - yellow-billed amazon (aka Jamaican amazon)
Amazona viridigenalis Red-crowned amazon (aka green cheeked amazon)
Amazona albifrons White fronted amazon (no subspecies names)
A. xanthora yellow-lored amazon
Amazona agilis - black-billed amazon
A. tucumana - Tucuman amazon
Amazona pretrei red-spectacled amazon
Amazona finschi - lilac-crowned amazon

  • A. finschi woodi - Wood's Red-fronted Parrot

Amazona autumnalis autumnalis - nominate subspecies of red-lored amazon
A. diadema - diademed amazon (in the vid it's as subspecies of RLA but now they are two different species)
Amazona (autumnalis) lilacina - lilacine amazon (it depends from classification if it's still a subspecies of RLA)
Amazona autumnalis salvini - no English name; a subspecies of RLA
Amazona dufresniana - blue cheeked amazon
Amazona rhodocorytha - red-browed amazon
Amazona brasiliensis - red tailed amazon
Amazona festiva festiva - festive amazon
Amazona festiva bodini - Bodinus' amazon
Amazona vinacea vinaceous-breasted amazon
Alipiopsitta xanthops - yellow-faced parrot - it was an amazon in the past
Amazona Barbadesis - Salty (aka yellow shouldered amazon), no subspecies names
Amazona aestiva - turquoise-fronted amazon (aka blue fronted amazon), no subspecies names (A. a. argentina and Chaco aren't vallid subspecies, in IOC Bird List there are only two subspecies)
Amazona oratrix oratrix - nominate subspecies of yellow-headed amazon
A. oratrix belizensis - Belize Yellow-headed Amazon
A. oratrix tresmariae - Tres Marias Amazon
A. oratriz magna - no English name; subspecies of DYH
Amazona auropalliata - yellow naped amazon, no subspecies names (A. a. hondurensis often isn't vallid)
Amazona ochrocephala - yellow crowned amazon (no most subspecies names)


  • Amazona ochrocephala panamensis - Panama amazon

A. amazonica - orange-winged amazon
Amazona mercenarius - scaly-naped amazon

  • A.m. canipalliata - Colombian Amazon

Amazona farinosa - southern mealy amazon

  • A.f. inornata - Plain-colored Amazon

Amazona guatemalae virenticeps - Costa Rican mealy amazon
Amazona guatemalae guatemalae - blue-crowned mealy amazon
Costa Rican and blue crowned amazon were seperated to new species A. guatemalae (Northern mealy amazon)

Amazona guildingii - Saint Vincent amazon
Amazona versicolor - Saint Lucia amazon
 
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Thank You for the Translation!
Must have been a wonderful, energy filled Dinner... :D

Again, Thank You!!!

Very minor change: lilac-crowned amazon (add a 'C' to crowned)

You have just become the goto person for Amazon Names!


As I mentioned I did list of English names, some of them I've heard for the first one, other ones I updated their classification. I used "main" names, I didn't write all names which I found (I mean synonyms)

Amazona leucocephala - Cuban amazon (no English subspecies names)
Amazona ventralis - Hispaniolan amazon
Amazona collaria - yellow-billed amazon (aka Jamaican amazon)
Amazona viridigenalis Red-crowned amazon (aka green cheeked amazon)
Amazona albifrons White fronted amazon (no subspecies names)
A. xanthora yellow-lored amazon
Amazona agilis - black-billed amazon
A. tucumana - Tucuman amazon
Amazona pretrei red-spectacled amazon
Amazona finschi - lilac-rowned amazon

  • A. finschi woodi - Wood's Red-fronted Parrot

Amazona autumnalis autumnalis - nominate subspecies of red-lored amazon
A. diadema - diademed amazon (in the vid it's as subspecies of RLA but now they are two different species)
Amazona (autumnalis) lilacina - lilacine amazon (it depends from classification if it's still a subspecies of RLA)
Amazona autumnalis salvini - no English name; a subspecies of RLA
Amazona dufresniana - blue cheeked amazon
Amazona rhodocorytha - red-browed amazon
Amazona brasiliensis - red tailed amazon
Amazona festiva festiva - festive amazon
Amazona festiva bodini - Bodinus' amazon
Amazona vinacea vinaceous-breasted amazon
Alipiopsitta xanthops - yellow-faced parrot - it was an amazon in the past
Amazona Barbadesis - Salty(aka yellow shouldered amazon), no subspecies names
Amazona aestiva - turquoise-fronted amazon (aka blue fronted amazon), no subspecies names (A. a. argentina and Chaco aren't vallid subspecies, in IOC Bird List there are only two subspecies)
Amazona oratrix oratrix - nominate subspecies of yellow-headed amazon
A. oratrix belizensis - Belize Yellow-headed Amazon
A. oratrix tresmariae - Tres Marias Amazon
A. oratriz magna - no English name; subspecies of DYH
Amazona auropalliata - yellow naped amazon, no subspecies names (A. a. hondurensis often isn't vallid)
Amazona ochrocephala - yellow crowned amazon (no most subspecies names)


  • Amazona ochrocephala panamensis - Panama amazon

A. amazonica - orange-winged amazon
Amazona mercenarius - scaly-naped amazon

  • A.m. canipalliata - Colombian Amazon

Amazona farinosa - southern mealy amazon

  • A.f. inornata - Plain-colored Amazon

Amazona guatemalae virenticeps - Costa Rican mealy amazon
Amazona guatemalae guatemalae - blue-crowned mealy amazon
Costa Rican and blue crowned amazon were seperated to new species A. guatemalae (Northern mealy amazon)

Amazona guildingii - Saint Vincent amazon
Amazona versicolor - Saint Lucia amazon
 
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Thank You for the Translation!
Must have been a wonderful, energy filled Dinner... :D

Again, Thank You!!!

Very minor change: lilac-crowned amazon (add a 'C' to crowned)

You have just become the goto person for Amazon Names!
Thanks, I'll add "c";) Some of them I copied and pasted, other ones I wrote and could did minor mistakes like these;) I didn't know this would take me a lot of time, most of names are from Wikipedia, sometimes I was using World Parrot Trust side for subspecies names. Hopefully I didn't have to read about a complicated red lored amazon subspecies taxonomy because I was writing an article about them this summer and then I was reading about this:D
 
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Wow that was a lot of work.
Thanks for saving me a lot of work just to satisfy my curiosity.

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