Date: 5/18/25 8:39 pm From: Fred Werner via groups.io <sustainablefred...> Subject: Re: [EBB-Sightings] Mystery parrot in Alameda
Robust body, short tail, and overall green color suggest it's an
*Amazona* parrot.
Several species with red foreheads are kept / bred / sold in the pet
trade. A Red-crowned Amazon was spotted in San Lorenzo a year ago.
Check out this list on wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amazon_parrots> or click here for
Tucuman Amazon <https://ebird.org/species/tucpar1> on eBird and then click
on "Red-spectacled Amazon" in the upper right (and keep clicking on that
upper-right option) to scroll through other possibilities to see if any one
species matches more closely with other features you may have noticed.
- Fred
On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM Dominik Mosur via groups.io <dominikmosur=
<gmail.com...> wrote:
> Might be a Red-crowned Amazon in which case probably an escapee. They have
> an established population in SoCal but not up here.
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> > On May 18, 2025, at 20:11, Chris Waterman via groups.io
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> > I saw this parrot in a tree on my block this morning in Alameda. Could
> anyone help me with an ID?
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> > Best,
> > Chris
> > Alameda
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