Can anyone tell me what bird is this?

[Ernie142k7]

Hello,
A friend of mine has this bird, I have searched online trying to figure out what it is, the closest i have come to is a jenday conure, but the colors dont quite match. I'm almost certain that it's a conure hybrid. Can anynoe help please?

 

[Rozalka]

It's not jenday conure and any type of conure because they have long tail. It looks like an amazon. I don't know what exactly species. Nothing is simillar to this, I was reading an article about chemically changing colors to get a new "species". It is the most common to do in Mexico so I looked on your location.... and I see you are from there. Also the most common to do it is with amazons... And the shape looks like an amazon. If not amazon, maybe a pionus but I think amazon is the most possible.


So did your friend get this bird not knowing the species?

 

[Cardinal]

A deviant Red lored Amazon is my guess. The deviation is much more yellow than normal and also the shade of green is a bit different.

 

[Rozalka]

For example - here is a lilac-crowned amazon after coloring

 

[Rozalka]

A deviant Red lored Amazon is my guess. The deviation is much more yellow than normal and also the shade of green is a bit different.

When I was writting an article about RLA's I was reading about their all subspecies. I think no one was changing the beak color so far. The nominate and salvini subspecies have black upper beak black, a lilacine amazon has all black beak. So I think It can't be a red lored amazon

 

[Ernie142k7]

He bought the bird from someone who caught him in the wild as a baby, but now that it has grown it doesnt look like any other parrot we have seen around this area. Thats why we are still wondering what species it is

 

[Ernie142k7]

Now that i see the lilac amazon it does have some resemblance, im thinking it must be an amazon

 

[Rozalka]

Catching baby wild bird and selling... it sounds more and more suspicious


Eventually you can try to look for what are local parrots on iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observa...lat=14.3895&swlng=-118.6523001&taxon_id=18874
In "species" you can write parrots or amazon and you can choose the location - via writing in "location" or via redo searching in map. Then you can see what parrot observations are near you.

 

[Rozalka]

Here is what I meant: Bleaching and Painting of Parrots - City Parrots -
Somebody posted it to another thread. Before I also had a problem with a translation into English - I meant bleaching of course

 

[MonicaMc]

Amazon....

This is why the head is yellow.

Bleaching and Painting of Parrots - City Parrots -