The Yellow-lored Amazon is a green parrot whose adult male has a white forehead, yellow lores, and red around the eyes. The birds live in flocks and feed mostly in treetops.
Adult males are green with a white forehead, yellow lores, and red around the eyes and upper cheeks. Females have a bluish forehead and less red on the face.
Tella and Hiraldo’s 2014 study compiled Mexican trade records for 22 parrot species. For the Yellow-lored Amazon, the supplement lists 74 birds seized in Mexico in 1995–2005 and zero seized at the US border in 1992–2005. CITES legal-export records list 29 birds in 1981–1991 and 131 in 1992–2005.
The appendix lists a Mexican-market price of $20.40 for this species and says Mexico had allowed it to be legally trapped in 12 years between 1979 and 2005. In the paper’s 2013 IUCN-based status data, the Yellow-lored Amazon is coded as not threatened.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.