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Costa Rica is a country situated well south of the Tropic of Cancer and like most places without a winter, parrots are an essential part of the local avifauna. With 18 species of native Psittacids to choose from, birding in Costa Rica is always a thrill, especially for someone who grew up in parrotless Niagara Falls, New York!
But instead of picking up chronologically from where I left off I have decided to skip ahead to our last evening in Puerto Rico when we were going for the biggest prize of all the Puerto Rican endemic birds, the Critically Endangered Puerto Rican Parrot. How about some pictures of parrots? We saw a Puerto Rican Parrot !
Before the EndangeredSpecies Act of 1973 (ESA), there was the EndangeredSpecies Preservation Act of 1966. endangeredspecies was issued on March 11, 1967, under the earlier law, and those listings were ultimately grandfathered into the ESA. Puerto Rican Parrot – Amazona vittata.
Yellow-naped Parrot. Endangered and awesome, it’s pretty easy to experience this big parrot in the Pacific lowlands of Costa Rica from Tarcoles north to near Nicaragua. A serious world mega and even more so because this species is truly scarce and without a doubt, truly endangered. Bare-necked Umbrellabird.
But other species have not been recorded in the ABA Area, including, of course, all 16 Puerto Rican endemics. avian diversity: the Puerto Rican Parrot is the only remaining native parrotspecies and the sole representative of the Tody family ( Todidae) is the Puerto Rican Tody. Some of these are unique examples of U.S.
Ulva Island is one of many New Zealand islands that the DOC has worked very hard to remove all the pests, and re-introduce many of the endangeredspecies. The second great spotting was the local Kaka , a parrot that is an endemic to the South Island. All these newly introduced vermin had a field day.
For endangeredspecies, red and gray tabs at the top of the page indicate level of threatened status from the IUCN and the Libro Rogo de los Vertebrados Cubanos (Red Data Book for Cuban Vertebrates). Descriptions are similarly compressed–no icons or silhouettes or physical descriptions.
Yellow-naped Parrot (Amazona auropalliata). Like the Great Green Macaw, in Costa Rica, this large parrot of the dry forest is fairly easy to see. When asked about the Yellow-naped Parrot, in many places, locals mention how this bird was much more common just 20 years ago but that they no longer see it. Blue-vented Hummingbird.
Picking up a bargain copy of the latest edition of the Parrots of the World by Joseph Forshaw. Joseph has forgotten more than I will ever know when it comes to parrots. Incidentally the two genera form a sister clade to another Pacific genus, Prospeia , the shining-parrots, a gorgeous trio of parrots endemic to Fiji.
Several endangeredspecies are (or have been) highly dependent on specific tracts of federal land. For decades before the reintroduction of additional populations, the Puerto Rican Parrot was only found in El Yunque NF near San Juan. For example, Whooping Cranes winter almost exclusively at Aransas NWR in Texas.
Jim’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds was A Rare Caribbean Parrot on the Brink. In 2021, the American Ornithological Society announced that it has now classified the Bahama Nuthatch as a distinct species, Sitta insularis. His latest book is The Real James Bond , available as a hardcover, an eBook and an audiobook.
They are rock stars in their family (or group of families, depending on what taxonomists have been smoking lately), a family that includes Scarlet Macaws , Crimson Shining-parrots , Golden Parakeets and Rainbow Lorikeets , and that is no mean feat. Part of it is because they are parrots, and most people really like parrots.
One of the most alarming stories I read this week was about the call to rationalise the allocation of conservation dollars in Australia , shifting the focus from protecting endangeredspecies to protecting habitats. Is it best to spend a million dollars to save a single parrot in Tasmania or a large chunk of rainforest?
Hundreds of years ago, there was talk of “semimythical islands” that existed somewhere west of Europe. To get to these islands, one would have to brave the rolling waters of the mighty Atlantic for several weeks with likely only a hunch that there was a destination.
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