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Status in the Wild

World Population:
Not recorded

Range:
A.a. albifrons: Pacific slope of W Mexico, south from Nayarit to SW Guatemala.
A.a. saltuensis: NW Mexico, in S Sonora, Sinaloa, and W Durango.
A.a. nana: S Mexico, in SE Veracruz, south to NW Costa Rica.


Habitat:
Found in a variety of wooded areas and open country with trees such as moist, seasonal semi-evergreen and deciduous forest, pine woodlands, gallery forest, ranchland with stands of open woodland, savanna and arid tropical scrub with cacti. Up to 1850m (6068 ft).

Threat Summary:
Birds are taken for the wild bird trade and hunted for food. Decline may have occurred in Yucatan due to persecution of parrots feeding on cultivated fruit after loss of wild food to effects of Hurricane Gilbert.

IUCN Rating:
Least concern

Wild Diet:
Eats seed pods, fruits, cacti, buds; also cultivated crops such as mango and maize.

CITES Rating:
Appendix II

Ecology:
Birds vocal and excited while feeding. In pairs when breeding but sociable, occurring mostly in small flocks. Some communal roosts are reported to contain several thousand birds.

Clutch and Egg Size:
3 or 4 rounded eggs, 30.0 x 22.5mm (1.2 x 0.9 in).

Breeding Season:
January-July, depending on locality.

Links to Other Project(s):
http://www.natureali.org/parrot_project/suburban_jungles.htm


More Info Sites:
http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p_spp=196536