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   The popular Yellow-crowned Amazon is a very green bird, but with a pretty yellow crown!

   The Yellow-crowned Amazon Amazona ochrocepha, also known as the Yellow-fronted Amazon, is a very well known bird and a popular pet. Like other Amazons, its general plumage is green with a forehead that is also green, but yielding to a yellow marking on the crown.

   The Yellow-crowned Amazon is one of several very similar Amazons with yellow on the head or neck. Sometimes it has been referred to as the Single Yellow-headed Amazon. This was to differentiate it from the Double Yellow-headed Amazon Amazona oratrix[1], whose entire head and nape becomes yellow. Another is the Yellow-naped Amazon Amazona auropalliata[2], whoses yellow markings are found only on the nape of the neck rather than the crown.

   This Yellow-crowned Amazon is even more easily confused with the Panama Amazon Amazona o. panamensis[3]. The Panama is another member of the...