Abstract
I never fully realized the difference in coloration between the sexes in the white-fronted Amazon until a pair "screeched past" one day last March. I was bird watching (rather, parrot watching) in the mountain pine ridge of Belize when a pair turned in front of me, like miniature jets, exposing their backs and full wings to view. The female was on top and appeared to be a streak of green. The male, however, just a foot or so below the female boasted a large "splash" of red. Within a period of ten minutes I noted about twenty parrots in pairs or trios passing. Unlike the yellow-crowned Amazon (Amazona ochrocephala) that silently flies past, generally quite some height above the tree line, the white-fronts flew only short distances then landed vocalizing loudly all the time. According to an article by Stewart Levinson (published in the Proceedings of the ICBP Parrot Working Group Meeting,
