White-fronted Parrot

Amazona albifrons

eBird describes the White-fronted Parrot this way:  Fairly small parrot of tropical lowlands. Found in semi-open areas with scattered trees, woodland, and forest patches, in both drier and more humid areas. Note the white forehead, red face, and yellowish bill. In flight, males shows a red patch on the leading edge of the wing (on bigger parrots, both sexes have a red patch on the trailing edge of the wing). Lacks the dark cheek patch of Yellow-lored Parrot.

The website Birds of the World gives this information about this bird:  The White-fronted Parrot has a somewhat disjunct range, with one population in northwest Mexico, and another in southern Mexico, where it is found on both the Caribbean and Pacific slopes, south, almost exclusively on the latter side of the isthmus, to western Costa Rica. It should be easily identified within its Middle American range, given its obvious white forehead, reddish eye surround, blue crown, red wing-bend, and dark blue speculum; the rest of the plumage is green. It prefers drier woodland, including semi-open areas with tall trees and cacti, and ascends into the foothills as high as approximately 1850 m. Despite some local trade, especially in Mexico, the White-fronted Parrot remains generally fairly abundant, and might even have benefited from such agricultural expansion.

I saw my first White-fronted Parrot on my birding trip to Costa Rica.  Our group was taking an early walk before breakfast when we spotted this bird on a road near our cabins at La Selva.  Unfortunate the light was very poor and the only photograph I got of this bird was not a good one, although you can definitely seen the white on the front of the head.