White-faced Amazon / Kawall's Parrot Amazona kawalli

White-faced Amazon Amazona kawalli
(aka Kawall's Parrot)

Brazilian name: papagaio-dos-garbes

Kawall's Parrot, Cristalino, Mato Grosso, Brazil, December 2006 - click for larger image

Cristalino Lodge, Mato Grosso, Brazil
December 2006

White-faced Amazon was described only recently in 1989 by Grantsau & Camargo. It used to be considered an aberrant form of Southern Mealy Amazon A. farinosa.

It is distributed in the central and southern Amazonian Basin and has a preference for river edges. These birds were seen on the banks of the rio Cristalino.

It differs from Southern Mealy Amazon, which has not been found on the lower Cristalino, in having a whitish strip of bare skin at the base of the bill, a shorter tail with narrower yellow-green terminal band and red at the base of the tail, a smaller and greyer eye-ring and no red on the leading edge or shoulder of the wing.

There are recordings and a distribution map on xeno-canto. Note that their distribution map should be extended at least a bit to cover the rio Cristalino where the Bradley Davis recording was made.

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