Red-crowned (Amazona viridigenalis) and lilac-crowned (Amazona finschi) Amazon parrots in Malibu CA.
Who is planning a “world parrot count” and why?
The "extra-tropical“ department of the parrot researchers group of the International Ornithological Union (IOU) with Roelant Jonker (City Parrots & CML Leiden University) and Michael Braun (Heidelberg University) organize the global parrot count. The main focus of the study are neozoon parrots, meaning parrots which have been introduced by man to locations they are not native to. Since the 1960s several parrot species have established viable breeding populations especially in the Northern Hemisphere. But also in tropical countries and the Southern Hemisphere non-native parrots have became established as breeding birds. We would like to find out how many species there are and if those populations are of conservation importance. One example are the populations of endangered Mexican yellow-headed amazon (Amazona oratrix) in Germany and the U.S.
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