Yellow-faced Parrot (Amazona xanthops)
(aka Yellow-faced Amazon)
Yellow-faced Parrot, Emas, Goiás, Brazil, April 2001 - click for larger image Brazil

The Yellow-faced Parrot is classified as Vulnerable due to the rapid destruction of its cerrado and caatinga habitat combined with its semi-nomadic habits which make it difficult to protect.
Yellow-faced Parrot, Mato Grosso, Brazil, April 2003 - click for larger image Sick classifies it as a Brazilian endemic but both HBW and Threatened Birds of the World register occurrences in Bolivia.

It eats mainly fruit and seems to be particularly fond of mangoes. Its semi-nomadism suggests that it depends on rather unpredictable food sources.

Yellow-faced Parrot, Mato Grosso, Brazil, April 2003 - click for larger image There is an illustration in HBW, Volume 4, Page 472.
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