- [Narrator] This is Tango.

She's a yellow-headed Amazon and extremely intelligent,

personable and talkative parrot.

(faint squawking)

I think Tango is uncharacteristically quiet today.

(lively music)

(faint flapping)

Native to Mexico and Northwestern Central America,

adult yellow-headed Amazons are identified by,

you guessed it, their full yellow heads.

The rest of their body is green with some yellow

and red visible on the bend of their wings.

They make their homes in forests and wooded areas

and subsist on a diet of fruits, berries, nuts and seeds.

The yellow-headed Amazon

has been a prized pet parrot for centuries.

Lively, voluble birds; they can hold

an impressive vocabulary

which only contributes to their demand.

Although captive-bred yellow-headed Amazons

can be owned,

they continue to be poached illegally in the wild,

which is why they're endangered.

Over the past two decades only,

their numbers outside of captivity have plummeted

to a tenth of its former population,

making their situation precarious.

This is the yellow-headed Amazon.

(lively music)

(fluttering)

(techno tones)