[2] Linnaeus based his description on an account by the Irish naturalist and collector Hans Sloane that was published in 1725 in his The Natural History of Jamaica.

[4] The yellow-billed amazon is now one of around thirty species placed in the genus Amazona that was introduced by the French naturalist René Lesson in 1830.

[8] Its plumage is mostly green with pink over the throat, upper breast and sides of neck,[8] and blue in the larger wing feathers.

[8] The yellow-billed amazon is found up to 1200m on the island of Jamaica where it is more abundant in the John Crow Mountains, on Mount Diablo and in the Cockpit Country.

They are a protected species being listed on appendix II of CITES, which makes trade and export of trapped wild birds illegal.

It is threatened by habitat loss, illegal trapping for the pet trade, and felling of trees with suitable nesting cavities.