The Amazon family is one the largest families of Parrots, consisting of over sixty different species. Amazon range from eight to twenty one inches. All are new world birds of well proportioned stocky builds and are predominately green in color.
Amazons are excellent pets, Great talkers and have a very clown like personality.
Those most widely kept as pets include, Double Yellow Heads, Panamas, Yellow Napes, Red heads, Spectacle, and Blue Fronts. All can be excellent talkers and make great companions. Amazons are long lived creatures, living up to eighty years. The to are new world parrots and range from Mexico south all the way to the cold regions of Patagonia. The characteristic of these birds is the long tail and slinder shape, with long tapering tails, large head, and large beak.