The Story
On July 3, 2017, I photographed this Yellow-crowned Amazon (Amazona ochrocephala) in La Macarena, Meta, Colombia. It is mainly a lowland bird. It is a parrot of tropical South America, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago. It lives in humid and dry tropical forest, woodland, mangroves and savanna, and also turns up on farmland. La Macarena has become an ecotourism destination, above all for Caño Cristales, the river of five colors. The nearby Serranía de la Macarena is an isolated mountain range about 120 kilometers long, separated from the Eastern Andes.
I used a Canon EOS 70D and the EF400mm f/5.6L USM for this one, at 1/250 sec, f/5.6, ISO 400. IUCN lists the Yellow-crowned Amazon as Least Concern with a decreasing population, and the botanical garden just outside La Macarena invites visitors to take part in its restoration work.
©2018 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Yellow-crowned Amazon (Amazona ochrocephala) belongs to the family Psittacidae (New World and African Parrots) in the eBird/Clements taxonomy.
Source: eBird.org (opens in a new tab)
Conservation
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2018), with the population trend listed as decreasing. Source: IUCN Red List