Endangered
Lilac-crowned Amazon
Amazona finschi
The lilac-crowned amazon, also known as the lilac-crowned parrot, Finsch's parrot or Finsch's amazon, is a parrot endemic to the Pacific slopes of Mexico.
Appearance
The plumage of an adult lilac-crowned amazon is primarily green with yellowish underparts and black edging. The forehead is a maroon colour with a light blue-lilac neck, nape, and crown. The cheeks and ear coverts are a greenish yellow that lacks the edging that is present in most of the plumage.
Range and habitat
The lilac-crowned amazon's endemic range spans along the pacific coast of Mexico, beginning in southeastern Sonora and southwestern Chihuahua down to southern Oaxaca. In Sinaloa and northern Nayarit the geographic range of the lilac-crowned parrot is above 375 meters of elevation. The range does not descend to sea level until southern Nayarit, where it remains so through Jalisco and Oaxaca. The lilac-crowned amazon's natural habitat in Mexico is often threatened.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
The lilac-crowned amazon's breeding season is from February to June. Females have a clutch size ranging from 1–4 eggs that usually results in an average brood size of 1.8 nestlings and a reproductive output of 0.99 fledglings per egg-laying female.
Ultimately outcomes of reproductive efforts result in 0.70 independent young per egg-laying pair.
In crisis
In 2014, IUCN uplisted this species to Endangered.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Lilac-crowned 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 Lilac-crowned Amazon, Wikidata item Q882929. 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.
