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Status in the Wild

World Population:
Not recorded

Range:
A.f. farinosa: Amazonia from Guianas, N Brazil and SE Venezuela, in southern Delta Amacuro, Bolivar east of Rio Caura, and Amazonas, to SE Colombia, in Vaupes and Amazonas, and south to Santa Cruz, C Bolivia and N Mato Grosso, Brazil; also an isolated group in coastal Brazil form S Bahia and E Minas Gerais to N Sao Paulo.
A.f. chapmani: E slopes of Andes from S Colombia in Meta, Caqueta and Putumayo to E Ecuador, E Peru and N Bolivia, in Pando to Cochabamba.
A.f. inornata: Veraguas and Isla Coiba, W Panama, N Colombia, north of Andes, excluding north coast and Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, south in Rio Magdalena valley to Cundinamarca and east to Sierra de Perija and NW Venezuela, east and west of Andes in E Zulia to Tachira and Pacific lowlands, west of Andes, in W Colombia south to W Ecuador, in SE Guayas and W Azuay.
A.f. virenticeps: W Panama, in W Chiriqui and W Bocas del Toro, north through Costa Rica and Nicaragua to Valle de Sula, NW Honduras.
A.f. guatemalae: Caribbean slope from Oaxaca and S Veracruz, S Mexico, to NW Honduras.


Habitat:
Resides in dense humid lowland rainforest, near clearings and forest edge; also found in low montane rainforest in Honduras and lower margins of subtropical zone in Panama. Found on plantations with tall trees as well as local gallery forest in savanna and more rarely deciduous forest. Up to 1100m (3608 ft).

Threat Summary:
Even though listed as least concern by IUCN this species has been heavily trapped for the wild bird trade; there is evidence of a decline in population. Heavily shot for food in French Guiana.

IUCN Rating:
Least concern

Wild Diet:
Food items include figs: Ficus, Brosimum; pods of legumes such as Inga and Dussia; arils of Casearia and Virola and others. May also take maize.

CITES Rating:
Appendix II

Ecology:
Found in pairs or flocks up to 20 individuals, with larger congregations at food sources. Forms large noisy communal roosts in tall trees outside breeding season sometimes with several hundred birds. Well camouflaged while quietly feeding in upper stages of forest canopy.

Clutch and Egg Size:
3 broadly elliptical eggs, 37.5 x 29.0mm (1.5 x 1.1 in).

Breeding Season:
Season November-March, Mato Grosso; May, Guatemala; January breeding condition, Cauca, Colombia.

Links to Other Project(s):
http://www.parrot-link.co.uk/mealy-amazon.htm

More Info Sites:
http://animal-world.com/encyclo/birds/amazons/mealyamazon.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mealy_Amazon