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Status in the Wild

World Population:
Not recorded

Range: C America, mostly Caribbean slope from S Tamaulipas and E San Luis Potosi, SE Mexico, to C Costa Rica, and both slopes from C Costa Rica to W Panama, in W Chiriqui and W Bocas del Toro.

Habitat:
Found up to 2300m (7544 ft) in mainly humid forest and woodland but also in local pine-oak forests, savanna and moist lower montane growth. Also has been reported from woodland and forest edge, cultivated areas and pastures with scattered trees, plantations, secondary growth and wooded streams.

Threat Summary:
Persecution as crop pest, hunting for food and deforestation, however; no serious decline in numbers has been reported.

IUCN Rating:
Least concern

Wild Diet:
Feeds on ripening seeds, palm fruits and sometimes cultivated crops.

CITES Rating:
Appendix II

Ecology:
Found mainly in pairs or small flocks outside of breeding season. Occasionally seen in large groups of several hundred. Feeds mainly in canopy.

Clutch and Egg Size:
4-6 broadly elliptical eggs, 35.0 x 25.5mm (1.4 x 1 in).

Breeding Season:
March, Mexico; January-April, Costa Rica.

Links to Other Project(s):
http://www.asana.co.cr/

More Info Sites:
http://www.eco-index.org/search/pdfs/473report_2.pdf

http://web.micronet.it/italian/imp/gaia/home.html