Unidentified Parrot

By January 21, 2009 2 comments

Neil Gilbert of OC Birding found a parrot that he does not know the identity to in Irvine Regional Park, Orange County, California.  Does anyone want to help him figure it out?  He’s got good pictures here.


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Corey

Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

2 Responses to “Unidentified Parrot”

  1. It is a hybrid. Most probably:

    Yellow-crowned Amazon (Amazona ochrocephala) X Blue-fronted Amazon (Amazona aestiva)

    In stead of the yellow-crowned it could also be a yellow-headed (Amazona oratrix) those are closely related.

    It is probably also listed here: http://amazornia.us/gallery_BF_YH.html

  2. Some kind of Amazon hybrid.

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