Cuban Amazon

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Cuban Parrot
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Psittaciformes Family: Psittacidae Genus: Amazona Species: A. leucocephala
Binomial name
Amazona leucocephala Linnaeus, 1758

The Cuban Parrot, Amazona leucocephala, also known as Cuban Amazon or the Rose-throated Parrot, is a medium-sized green parrot found in woodlands and dry forests of Cuba, the Bahamas and Cayman Islands in Caribbean.^[1]

There are four subspecies of the Cuban Parrot :

• A. l. leucocephala is present throughout Cuba and the Isle of Pines.
• A. l. bahamensis has two populations in the Bahamas, one on Abaco and one on Great Inagua.
• A. l. caymanensis lives on Grand Cayman Island.
• A. l. hesterna lives on Cayman Brac, also in the Cayman Islands.

Due to ongoing habitat lost, occasional natural disasters and hunted in some areas, the Cuban Parrot is evaluated as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix I and II of CITES.

[edit] References

• BirdLife International (2004). Amazona leucocephala. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes a range map and a brief justification of why this species is near threatened

[edit] External links

• BirdLife Species Factsheet
• IUCN Red List
• Cuban Parrot
• Cuban Parrot Video in Zapata Swamp,Cuba