Amazona ochrocephala
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
The yellow-crowned amazon or yellow-crowned parrot (Amazona ochrocephala) is a species of parrot native to tropical South America, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean. The taxonomy is highly complex and the yellow-headed (A. oratrix) and yellow-naped amazon (A. auropalliata) are sometimes considered subspecies of the yellow-crowned amazon. Except in the taxonomic section, the following deals only with the nominate group (including subspecies xantholaema, nattereri and panamensis).They are found in the Amazon basin.
The yellow-crowned amazon was formally described in 1788 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with all the other parrots in the genus Psittacus and coined the binomial name Psittacus ochrocephalus. Gmelin specified the type locality as "America", but this was restricted to Venezuela in 1902. The yellow-crowned amazon is now one of around thirty species of parrot 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 given to these parrot in the 18th century... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yasuní National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 2 | Parque Natural Metropolitano | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 3 | Tambopata National Reserve | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 4 | Sierra de la Macarena National Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 5 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 6 | Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 7 | Henri Pittier National Park | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 8 | Amacayacu National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 9 | Anavilhanas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 10 | Chagres National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 11 | Farallones de Cali National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 12 | Soberanía National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 13 | Bastimentos Island National Marine Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 14 | La Amistad International Park (Panama) | 🇵🇦 Panama |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caracas | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 2 | Panama City | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 3 | Medellín | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 4 | Cali | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 5 | Valencia | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 6 | Maracaibo | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 7 | Barranquilla | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 8 | Bogota | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-crowned Parrot sighting in Maracaibo on a given day, based on 15 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 57th most-seen of the 89 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.
December
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-crowned Parrot in Maracaibo on a given day, against under 5% in January–February and April–November, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Yellow-crowned Parrot sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
6th of 8
Of the 8 cities where we can rate Yellow-crowned Parrot sightings, Maracaibo ranks 6th at under 5%. The best odds are in Caracas (Venezuela, about 40%), Panama City (Panama, about 20%) and Medellín (Colombia, about 10%).
Same family: Psittacidae
The closest relatives of the Yellow-crowned Parrot that you can see in Maracaibo (family Psittacidae, New World and African Parrots) are Orange-chinned Parakeet (about 80%), Chestnut-fronted Macaw (about 60%) and Brown-throated Parakeet (about 50%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Yellow-crowned Parrot is recorded against all the birds logged in Maracaibo (15 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.
