Critically Endangered
Lilacine amazon
Amazona lilacina
The lilacine amazon, also known as the Ecuadorian red-lored amazon, is an amazon parrot native to Ecuador in South America.
Appearance
The lilacine amazon is a small parrot, approximately 34 cm long when mature, with primarily green plumage. Like the red-lored amazon, it has red lores and yellow cheeks. Its distinguishing features include a fully black beak, and lilac-tipped feathers on its crown. It is generally smaller than the closely related red-lored amazon, with a black beak and more subdued coloring.
Range and habitat
The lilacine amazon is native to the tropical dry forests of western Ecuador north of the Gulf of Guayaquil, extending to Nariño in extreme south-western Colombia adjacent to the Ecuadorian border, where it intersects with the subspecies A. A. Salvini. The lilacine amazon, also known as the Ecuadorian red-lored amazon, is an amazon parrot native to Ecuador in South America.
GBIF currently lists 35 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The diet of the lilacine amazon consists primarily of fruits, nuts, berries, and seeds. Like most parrots, the lilacine amazon is a monogamous breeder and a cavity nester.
As with many other parrots, the male will keep the female and chicks nourished during their time in the nest by consuming additional food and regurgitating it for them.
In crisis
The International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies the lilacine amazon as critically endangered.
Lilacine amazon is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Lilacine amazon, Wikidata item Q55111960 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
