The feathers of the nape and side of the neck have black edges that give a scalloped appearance.

The carpal edge of their wing is yellowish green and their primaries are black with blue outer webs.

Their iris is blackish, their bill dusky with a red base on the maxilla, and their legs and feed gray.

[6] The blue-cheeked amazon is found from extreme eastern Venezuela east through Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana and south slightly into northern Brazil.

[6] The blue-cheeked amazon is thought to be generally sedentary but some make seasonal movements between the Suriname interior and coast.

Its diet is almost unknown; it is assumed to include seeds, fruits, and blossoms like that of other Amazona parrots.

On characteristic call is "a loud, raucous, and throaty queenk-queenk-queenk...with [a] distinctly nasal quality" which is given both from a perch and in flight.