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In 2009 this parrot was downlisted from Endangered to Near Threatened because although it has a very small range within which there has been extensive forest loss and fragmentation, it apparently remains common in degraded and cultivated habitats and there is no evidence of a continuing decline. The current population is estimated at between 10000 and 46000 individuals."
Though there is great diversity among these birds, there are similarities as well. All parrots have curved beaks and all are zygodactyls, meaning they have four toes on each foot, two pointing forward and two projecting backward. Most parrots eat fruit, flowers, buds, nuts, seeds, and some small creatures such as insects.
Many parrots are kept as pets, especially macaws, Amazon parrots, cockatiels, parakeets, and cockatoos. These birds have been popular companions throughout history because they are intelligent, charismatic, colorful, and musical. Some birds can imitate many nonavian sounds, including human speech. The male African gray parrot (Psittacus erithacus) is the most accomplished user of human speech in the animal world; this rain forest-dweller is an uncanny mimic.
Some parrot species are highly endangered. In other cases, once tame birds have reproduced in the wild and established thriving feral populations in foreign ecosystems. The monk (green) parakeet, for example, now lives in several U.S. states.
Glenn Reynolds has owned and bred various parrot species since 1979, starting with Sulphur-crested Cockatoos and Cockatiels and eventually moving on to Hyacinth Macaws, Golden Conures, and Palm Cockatoos.
Four thick-billed parrots reside at ZooAmerica. We have had success with thick-billed parrot breeding over the years. Eggs have hatched in 2001, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015. We keep the chicks until they are at least 3-5 years old. They are then sent to other zoos to breed, based on recommendations from the Species Survival Plan. In 2019, we traded parrots with other zoos to create two new breeding pairs. The goal is that they will bond and produce chicks in future years. ZooAmerica also participates in research projects to learn more about thick-billed parrots. With so few birds remaining, every bit of knowledge gained is vital to the cause of saving their species.
Thick-billed parrots spend most of their time at higher elevations, from 3,900 to 11,500 feet. Although their range once included the mountains of southern Arizona and New Mexico, they are now found only in the mature pine-oak forests of northwestern Mexico.
Their diet is mostly pine nuts, but they also eat buds, acorns, and juniper fruits. Flocks gather on a single tree and clip the cones from branches before shredding their outer coats to get to the seeds inside. At the zoo, they eat a commercial parrot food, and nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables.
The bird was listed as endangered in 1967, under the precursor of the Endangered Species Act, and efforts were launched to bring the species back. A captive breeding program and careful release of some parrots into the wild rebuilt the total wild population to nearly 200 birds by the middle of 2017.
As White and his colleagues began to repair the cages, fences, buildings and other infrastructure at the aviary, they had to contend with tough conditions for the birds. Constant sunlight now baked the flight pens, overheating the already stressed birds. Food for the parrots began to run low.
In October 2017, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation teamed up to deliver emergency supplies to the aviary, including generators and desperately needed food for the parrots.
White hopes that some parrots could be released as early as January of 2019 at the Rio Abajo site. The more heavily damaged El Yunque forest will most likely need at least another year before it would be suitable for release of captive-born parrots.
Though some cases of endangered species can generate controversy, the people of Puerto Rico are really pulling for these birds. They see it as their parrot, and they identify with its plight, especially now in the wake of the hurricane. I would say 99.9 percent, if not 100 percent, of the people want to see the parrot come back.
A Texas A&M-led research team has discovered that a population of endangered red-crowned parrots is thriving in urban areas of South Texas. The parrots are a unique case, considering that many animal species are affected negatively by the expansion of human urban areas, which can lead to deforestation and pollution of natural habitats.
These mostly green parrots, which have a cluster of bright red feathers on their heads, are also an unusual example of a species that has adapted well in the face of poaching and the pet trade moving them from their native areas.
Red-crowned parrots were originally native to a small region of Northeastern Mexico, where they are considered endangered because of habitat loss and poaching tied to the illegal animal trade. For parrots, this process often involves poachers stealing eggs or young chicks out of nests and selling them, sometimes for hundreds of dollars each.
Currently, Brightsmith and Kiacz are working on new projects that will study the relationships between red-crowned parrots and sister species, like the lilac-crowned parrot, including natural hybridization that may be entangling the two species from a conservation standpoint.
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All the parrots in Los Angeles were brought here from their native homes in Mexico to serve as pets. Through escape, accident, or intentional release, many species have now established themselves in the city. They also seem to be increasing. In the mid-1970s, Moore Lab Director Bill Hardy documented only one handful of Red-crowned Parrots in the city. They now number in the thousands.
The Moore Lab is studying the DNA of the parrots of Los Angeles. Both are endangered in their native ranges due to habitat destruction and illegal capture for the pet trade. There might be more Red-crowned Parrots in Los Angeles than in Mexico! Some have even suggested that the Los Angeles parrots might someday be a sort of rescue population" if they are lost from Mexico. But are the parrots in Los Angeles still remaining as a distinct species or are they interbreeding and collapsing into a hybrid swarm.
Using DNA from historical specimens of the parrots collected in Mexico in the 1930s-1950s, we have established a baseline of how different the species are genetically. Now, we are comparing those differences to what we see in Los Angeles from specimens that are found dead or that have died in animal rehab facilities.
All 22 Mexican species are at risk; 11 species are classified as endangered, 7 as threatened and 4 as under special protection. The foremost threats parrots face are loss of habitat and illegal trapping for the pet trade.
Approximately 75 percent of captured parrots die before reaching the consumer, which in Mexico translates to roughly 50,000 to 60,500 annually. Between 80,000 to 90,000 parrots are poached on an annual basis in Peru.
Illegal trade has since decreased by 32%. Our international efforts helped get many endangered species of parrots, including the yellow-crested cockatoo, yellow-headed parrot and the African grey parrot uplisted to Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) that bans international trade.
Of the 374 species of parrots in the world, 116 are listed as vulnerable, endangered or worse by the IUCN Red List. Some species have populations of less than a thousand and most species have decreasing populations.
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