About Amazona xantholora (G.R.Gray, 1859)
Yucatan amazon (Amazona xantholora (G.R.Gray, 1859)) measures 25.5 to 28 cm (10 to 11 in) in length and weighs 200 to 232 g (7.1 to 8.2 oz). Its body is mostly green. Adult males have chrome yellow lores and sides of the forehead; the rest of the forehead and most of the crown are white. The area around and behind the eye is red, and ear coverts are dusky. The rear crown is greenish blue, the nape is green, and the rest of the upperparts and underparts are yellowish green. Most body feathers have black edges that create a scalloped appearance. The middle pair of tail feathers are green with pale yellowish green tips. The next pair are yellowish green with a yellow base and a red streak near the base, and the remaining tail pairs have progressively more red replacing the yellowish green. The leading edge of the wing and primary coverts are red; the outermost primaries are green with blue toward the end, and the rest of the primaries and secondaries are rich blue. The iris is orange, surrounded by bare white skin, while the bill and legs are yellow. Adult females differ from males: they have greenish blue forehead and crown, paler yellow lores, very little red on the face, traces of duskiness on the ear coverts, and green primary coverts. The Yucatan amazon occurs across the Yucatán Peninsula, in the Mexican states of Quintana Roo, Yucatán, and Campeche, and extends slightly into northern Belize. A large population is also found on Isla Cozumel. One specimen was collected on the Honduran island of Roatán in 1947; there are a few eBird records from Roatán and many eBird records from northern Guatemala. It inhabits the interior and edges of primary and secondary deciduous and semi-deciduous forest, and also occurs in pine savannah. Its elevational range extends from sea level up to approximately 100 m (300 ft).
