Amazona ochrocephala
Silhouette: Ferran Sayol · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
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 |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-crowned Parrot sighting in Sierra de la Macarena National Park on a given day, based on 167 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 63rd most-seen of the 418 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-crowned Parrot in Sierra de la Macarena National Park on a given day, against under 5% in August, the lowest month.
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.
4th of 14
Of the 14 parks where we can rate Yellow-crowned Parrot sightings, Sierra de la Macarena National Park ranks 4th at about 20%. The best odds are in Yasuní National Park (Ecuador, about 30%), Parque Natural Metropolitano (Panama, about 20%) and Tambopata National Reserve (Peru, about 20%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Yellow-crowned Parrot is recorded against all the birds logged in Sierra de la Macarena National Park (167 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
