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Amazona versicolor (St. Lucia Parrot; St. Lucia Amazon)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Saint Lucia amazon (Amazona versicolor) also known as the Saint Lucia parrot is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae. 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.Although the population in Saint Lucia is small it is still expanding.
View Wikipedia Record: Amazona versicolor

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Amazona versicolor

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
29
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.60714
EDGE Score: 2.66921
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.49 lbs (676 g)
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  50 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  30 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  50 %
Forages - Understory [2]  20 %
Clutch Size [3]  2
Snout to Vent Length [3]  17 inches (43 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Windward Islands moist forests Martinique, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Barre-de-L'Isle South Forest Reserve 2021 Saint Lucia    
Castries Waterworks Forest Reserve 3440 Saint Lucia    
Central "A" Forest Reserve 4030 Saint Lucia    
Central "B" Forest Reserve 3642 Saint Lucia    
Quilesse Forest Reserve 3459 Saint Lucia    

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Government Forest Reserve St Lucia A1, A2  
Mandele Dry Forest St Lucia A1, A2, B4i  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Caribbean Islands Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. Yes

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Fa JE, Cavalheiro ML. Individual variation in food consumption and food preferences in St Lucia parrots Amazona versicolor at Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust. International Zoo Yearbook 1998; 36:199–214.
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0