Identify My Rescue Amazon

[Love My Zons]

She’s pretty small I think. I don’t have amazon experience, but the bird store who does my grooming ruled it out due to her size.

You can see a few stray yellow feathers on the top of her head and they also have that tinge of red/orange.

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I am still sticking to my first thought Kazoo has the same yellow with red feathers on his head. She also has the scalloping of darker feathers on her nape.

Anyway you can get a few full body pics out of the cage in natural day light? You should see a silvery powder like color on her back if she's a Mealy.

Any band on her leg?

 

[Monica]

Pictures shared. I'll let you know of any responses or requests!

Here's a picture of a hybrid between lilac crown and double yellow head (supposedly as per description - not best of shots)
hybrid Lilac-crowned Amazon and Double Yellow-headed Parro… | Flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/53816456@N08/16138244457/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/53816456@N08/16138244327/

And double yellow headed x red lored hybrids for comparison (these are my personal photos)
Double Yellow Head x Red Lored Amazon Hybrid | Double Yellow… | Flickr
Double Yellow Head x Red Lored Amazon Hybrid | Double Yellow… | Flickr
Double Yellow Head x Red Lored Amazon Hybrid | Double Yellow… | Flickr
Double Yellow Head x Red Lored Amazon Hybrid | Double Yellow… | Flickr

 

[Love My Zons]

Color of feet can also be another indicator. Wing culverts are red. Flights are red and black to a very dark blue.


The dusted light silvery look. Mealy named after looking like they were dusted with flour.

His red and yellow. He is just alittle over 10. The yellow feather showed up a few years ago, but there was just one and it would fall out. The last year plus it came in with red. As a baby he had none at all. His 2 sisters both had red and yellow at 16 weeks.

I hope as he gets older this will come in more. If not, he's beautiful even just as he is.

 

[Love My Zons]

Pictures shared. I'll let you know of any responses or requests!

Here's a picture of a hybrid between lilac crown and double yellow head (supposedly as per description - not best of shots)
hybrid Lilac-crowned Amazon and Double Yellow-headed Parro… | Flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/53816456@N08/16138244457/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/53816456@N08/16138244327/

And double yellow headed x red lored hybrids for comparison (these are my personal photos)
Double Yellow Head x Red Lored Amazon Hybrid | Double Yellow… | Flickr
Double Yellow Head x Red Lored Amazon Hybrid | Double Yellow… | Flickr
Double Yellow Head x Red Lored Amazon Hybrid | Double Yellow… | Flickr
Double Yellow Head x Red Lored Amazon Hybrid | Double Yellow… | Flickr

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing this.

 

[Monica]

Responses received so far...


Diane M - Looks like a double yellow head Amazon

Tom S - Pics of most different Amazons on this link. http://animal-world.com/encyclo/birds/amazons/Amazons.htm

Michelle L - I would guess one parent was a Panama.

Adrianne M - It's not a mealy.

Justin W - Nape x yellow crown?

Steve D - Looks like a hybrid to me.

Tony S - Those are called “blueberry” Amazons in Miami, where there is a growing feral population. They contain the blood of Blue-front, Orange-wing and a few others. Over many decades I have seen the evolution of this Miami form.

Steve D - We have some hybrids out here too (California)

 

[redindiaink]

Thanks. I took her to get groomed and the bird store said maybe red Lored Amazon based off her size and other factors.

She'd have blue feathers on her head if and the eyes would be red, not amber, if she was a red lored.

My gut reaction is it's a yellow crowned or yellow naped because of the bill horn colour along with toes/nails and eye colour, but not knowing the weight or wing span/length makes it harder to guess.

And in terms of size I'd look up Dr McDonald's weight chart there can be an incredible range in weight even within a species. One of my yellow naped amazons weighs 570gr and another is 490gr. Neither is overweight. One has a massive yellow patch of feathers on her nape and the other only has a few with some orange along the tips. Both are older birds.

 

[melissasparrots]

I think its a hybrid. Something about the beak says yellow front and the red orange on the head looks kind of red lored to me. I could be wrong on the mix, but I think its a hybrid.

 

[Monica]

A couple more....

Tony S (in response to Steve D) - this is the evolution of the “blueberry”. This is how they looked two generations ago. This form has adapted to nesting later so as not to compete with their ancestors and they utilize the roof of homes rather than trees.

Adam W - Orange wing x Yellow Nape.