Black-billed Amazon
The Black-billed Amazon (Amazona agilis) is a parrot endemic to Jamaica. Sometimes called the Black-billed Parrot, this Amazon parrot is mostly green with small patches of red on the wing and sometimes flecked on the head. Its bill makes it easy to separate from most other Amazons, including the Yellow-billed Amazon, which also lives in Jamaica. It is the smallest Amazona parrot at 25 cm (10 in).
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Appearance
Males later become green with yellow or green on underparts with neck feathers softly dusted with black, red primary coverts, green tail with red at base. a grey bill, paler at base. Males also have a dark grey or brown eye ring. Females are similar to males but with some primary coverts green instead of red.
Habitat
The Black-billed Amazon lives in mountainous rainforest, usually limestone rainforest, feeding on fruit, seeds, and nuts, and will take cultivated fruit like mangos, papayas and cucumbers as well as wild fruits.
Population
The Black-billed Amazon was once as common as the Yellow-billed Amazon, but has become much rarer due to deforestation and hurricane damage fragmenting its forest, poaching for food and the pet trade in wild parrots.
