Endangered
Yellow-headed Amazon
Amazona oratrix
The yellow-headed amazon, also known as the yellow-headed parrot and double yellow-headed amazon, is an endangered amazon parrot of Mexico and northern Central America.
Appearance
The yellow-headed amazon averages 38–43 centimetres (15–17 in) long. The body is bright green, with yellow on the head, dark scallops on the neck, red at the bend of the wing, and yellow thighs. The flight feathers are blackish to bluish violet with a red patch on the outer secondaries.
Measuring 38–43 centimetres (15–17 in) in length, it is a stocky short-tailed green parrot with a yellow head.
Range and habitat
This species lives in riparian forest and areas with scattered trees, as well as evergreen forest in Belize and mangroves in Guatemala. A notable ecoregion of occurrence is the Belizean pine forests. It occurs singly or in pairs, in small groups, and occasionally in big flocks.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
The yellow-headed amazon, also known as the yellow-headed parrot and double yellow-headed amazon, is an endangered amazon parrot of Mexico and northern Central America. Poaching for the international pet trade has driven the species to near-extinction in the wild. Around half of all wild-caught birds are thought to die in the process. The yellow-headed amazon is considered endangered by the IUCN, and is listed under CITES Appendix I, that regulates the international trade of the species among them those bred in captivity through a permitting system.
Populations range from Central America, through Mexico, and even into the southmost region of Texas. Providing a sustainable managed breeding program to assist elevating pressures on wild populations for use in avicultural, research and pets.https://cites.org/eng/common/reg/cb/AU The popularity of yellow-headed amazons as a pet continues to fuel poaching efforts, that have nearly driven it to extinction in the wild.
Yellow-headed 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 Yellow-headed Amazon, Wikidata item Q613939. 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.
