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The Yellow-headed amazon (Amazona oratrix) is a bird found in United States and Mexico. Found in the United States and Mexico. It eats fruit, seeds and nuts and leaves and other plant parts. The IUCN Red List lists it as Endangered.

🏡 Where the Yellow-headed amazon lives

Found in the United States and Mexico.

🍽️ What it eats

• 🍎 Fruit40%
• 🌰 Seeds & nuts30%
• 🌿 Leaves & plants30%

A rough guide to its diet over a year. Source: EltonTraits (Wilman et al. 2014).

Conservation status

Hear the Yellow-headed amazon

Recorded by Manuel Grosselet (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), xeno-canto XC804979. Trimmed to a few seconds.

Questions about the Yellow-headed amazon

Where does the Yellow-headed amazon live?

The Yellow-headed amazon lives in United States and Mexico. Found in the United States and Mexico.

What does the Yellow-headed amazon eat?

fruit (about 40%), seeds and nuts (about 30%), leaves and other plant parts (about 30%). These are rough shares of its diet over a year, from the EltonTraits database.

Is the Yellow-headed amazon endangered?

Very few are left in the wild. Its IUCN Red List category is Endangered.

More birds from North America

• Tricolored blackbird
• Yellow-shouldered blackbird
• Mangrove hummingbird
• Black-billed amazon
• Yellow-naped amazon
• Lilac-crowned amazon

Sources: IUCN Red List (via Wikidata), EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014), GBIF sightings for countries, Wikipedia. Last updated 2026-10-19.