Endangered
Black-billed Amazon
Amazona agilis
The black-billed amazon is a parrot endemic to Jamaica.
Appearance
This parrot is smaller than the yellow-billed amazon and measures between 10.5 and 11.5 inches (27 and 29 centimetres). In males, the bill is very dark grey, almost black, becoming paler towards the base. The cere is very dark grey, as is the skin around the eyes, and the iris is dark brown.
It is the smallest Amazona parrot at 25 cm (10 in).
Range and habitat
The black-billed amazon is endemic to Jamaica. The black-billed amazon is a parrot endemic to Jamaica.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
The black-billed amazon was once as common as the yellow-billed amazon, but has become much rarer due to deforestation and hurricane damage fragmenting its forest, poaching for food and the pet trade in wild parrots.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Black-billed Amazon is 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 Black-billed Amazon, Wikidata item Q908266. 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.
