The red-crowned Amazon, (Amazona viridigenalis) also recognized as the red-crowned parrot, green-cheeked Amazon, or Mexican red-headed parrot, is a threatened amazon parrot indigenous to northeastern Mexico. The current native wild inhabitants of between 1,000 and 2,000 are shrinking. The principal menaces to its continuance are the illicit export of captured birds from Mexico to the United States and the damage of habitat.