The blue-fronted amazon was one of the many species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.

In one extreme, individuals with essentially no yellow on the head and entirely green "shoulders" are known from north-western Argentina.

[6] A small feral breeding population is also present in the greener regions of Stuttgart in Germany and Genoa in Italy.

[citation needed] Although they have been observed in the wild in Puerto Rico, they are probably the result of escaped pets, and no reproduction has been recorded.

[12] The blue-fronted amazon is commonly seen as a pet, both in South America and other parts of the world.

An extremely rare red (or chocolate raspberry) mutation of the species appeared in captivity in 2004, bred by the psittaculturist Howard Voren.

The mutation results in yellow plumage being replaced by that of a red/pink hue and greens with a chocolate-brown, with the depth and intensity of color varying by location upon the body.