St Lucia Amazon

Taxobox
name = St Lucia Parrot


status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Psittaciformes
familia = Psittacidae
genus = "Amazona"
species = "A. versicolor"
binomial = "Amazona versicolor"
binomial_authority = (Müller, 1776)
synonyms = The St Lucia Parrot ("Amazona versicolor") is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family. It is endemic to Saint Lucia and is the country's national bird.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It is threatened by habitat loss. The species had declined from around 1000 birds in the 1950s to 150 birds in the late 1970s. At that point a conservation program began to save the species, which galvanised popular support to save the species, and by 1990 the species had increased to 350 birds.Fact|date=July 2008

References

* BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/1066/all Amazona versicolor] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 24 July 2007.

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/search/species_search.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1687&m=0 BirLife Species Factsheet.]