The males and females of yellow-fronted parrots are relatively easy to distinguish. The most direct way is to look at their crest feathers. The so-called crest feathers are the yellow feathers on the head of a yellow-fronted parrot. Male yellow-fronted parrots generally have more crest feathers on their heads. More, female yellow-fronted parrots are less.

Yellow-fronted parrots have powerful bills and thick, muscular tongues , very explosive, under normal circumstances, yellow-fronted parrots mainly live on high branches, prefer to climb such a life, usually seldom fly to the land to live.