Amazona leucocephala
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
The Cuban amazon (Amazona leucocephala), also known as the Cuban parrot and the rose-throated parrot, is a medium-sized mainly green parrot found in woodlands and dry forests of Cuba, the Bahamas and Cayman Islands in the Caribbean. Although they have been observed in the wild in Puerto Rico, they are probably the result of escaped pets, and no reproduction has been recorded.
The Cuban amazon was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. He placed it with all the other parrots in the genus Psittacus and coined the binomial name Psittacus leucocephalus. Linnaeus cited the description and illustration of the "white-headed parrot" in George Edwards' A Natural History of Uncommon Birds which was published in 1751. Linnaeus gave the type locality as "America" but this was restricted to eastern Cuba by Thomas Barbour in 1923. The Cuban amazon is now one of around thirty species placed in the genus Amazona that was introduced by the French naturalist René Lesson in 1830. The genus name is a Latinized version of the name Amazone used in the 18th century by the Comte de Buffon. The specific epithet leucocephala... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ciénaga de Zapata | 🇨🇺 Cuba |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Havana | 🇨🇺 Cuba |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Busch Gardens Tampa | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | Parc Phœnix | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 3 | Parque Zoológico Nacional de Cuba | 🇨🇺 Cuba | |
| 4 | Zoo Miami | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 5 | Bronx Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 6 | Moody Gardens | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 7 | Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 8 | Havana Zoo | 🇨🇺 Cuba | |
| 9 | Loro Parque | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 10 | Jardín Zoológico El Bosque | 🇨🇺 Cuba | |
| 11 | Palm Beach Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 12 | Faunistic Park Cappeller | 🇮🇹 Italy | |
| 13 | Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 14 | Zoológico del Casino Campestre | 🇨🇺 Cuba | |
| 15 | Aquarium Barcelona | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 16 | Zoológico de Trinidad | 🇨🇺 Cuba | |
| 17 | Parrot Zoo in Bošovice | 🇨🇿 Czechia | |
| 18 | Batu Secret Zoo | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 19 | Dolphin Encounters | 🇧🇸 Bahamas |
No species of the same family or order lives in Havana, so these are its closest relatives here: other birds.
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Cuban Parrot sighting in Havana on a given day, based on 106 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 93rd most-seen of the 183 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March, May, July–August and October–November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Cuban Parrot in Havana on a given day, against under 5% in April, June, September and December–February, the lowest months.
Between 3 and 6 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Cuban Parrot sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Havana, in our data
Havana is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Cuban Parrot sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Cuban Parrot is recorded against all the birds logged in Havana (106 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
