Yellow-shouldered Amazon

Amazona barbadensis (Gmelin, JF, 1788)

33 cmLength270 gWeight

Busiest months: May · Most records: Caribbean Netherlands, Venezuela, Curaçao

Near Threatened

Where and when it's recorded

Busiest months: May · Most records: Caribbean Netherlands, Venezuela, Curaçao

Yellow-shouldered Amazon has been recorded at 22 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 4 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

Posada El GalloVenezuela192 records
Washington Slagbaai NPCaribbean Netherlands141 records
Kralendijk Water Treatment PlantCaribbean Netherlands128 records

More places

GotomeerCaribbean Netherlands116 records
Bopec/GotomeerCaribbean Netherlands110 records
Washington Slagbaai NP – Put BronswinkelCaribbean Netherlands89 records
Washington Slagbaai NP – Pos MangelCaribbean Netherlands83 records
Washington Slagbaai NP – Pond near Park EntranceCaribbean Netherlands43 records
Kaminda Lac WetlandsCaribbean Netherlands14 records
Lac BayCaribbean Netherlands11 records

Countries and regions with the most records

Caribbean Netherlands Venezuela Curaçao Aruba

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The yellow-shouldered amazon (Amazona barbadensis), also known as the yellow-shouldered parrot, is a parrot of the genus Amazona that is found in the arid areas of northern Venezuela, the Venezuelan islands of Margarita and La Blanquilla, and the island of Bonaire (Caribbean Netherlands). It has been extirpated from and reintroduced to Aruba and introduced to Curaçao.

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