Red-crowned Parrot
Common
Name: Red-crowned Parrot (RCPA)
Scientific
Name:
Amazona viridigenalis
Global/Continental
Conservation Status: Not
on IUCN 2004 Red List
National-level
Conservation Status:
Mexico
- Normas Oficiales Mexicanas (NOM) para la Proteccion Ambiental (Official
Mexican Standards for Environmental Protection) - Endangered
Key
Reference(s):
BNA No. 292 (Enkerlin-Hoeflich and Hogan 1997); Macias et al.
(2000); Collar (1997); Juniper and Parr (1998); Forshaw (1989).
Distribution:
Resident in e Nuevo León,
Tamaulipas
,
San Luis Potosí
and extreme ne
Veracruz
. Established breeding population in s
Texas
(AOU 1998)
Habitat
Associations:
Tropical lowland evergreen forest, gallery forest, pine-oak forest
(0-1200 m; tropical and lower subtropical zones) (AOU
1998)
Source(s)
of Research/monitoring Needs: BNA No.
292 (Enkerlin-Hoeflich and Hogan 1997); PIF Monitoring Needs document
(Partners in Flight Science Committee 2004)
PIF
Continental Plan Monitoring Needs Category: Mo1
(Essentially no data on population trend)
RESEARCH/MONITORING NEEDS (source(s) of needs)
Monitoring
- Priority
monitoring action – Conduct Mexican species-specific surveys (PIF
Monitoring Needs doc)
- Second
priority monitoring action – Conduct species-specific surveys in the
U.S.
(PIF Monitoring Needs doc)
- High
priority candidate for rapid status assessment (PIF Monitoring Needs
doc)
- Work
on methods to monitor RCPA populations, including roost counts for
regional studies and breeding pair counts for local studies (BNA)
- Determine
if source and sink populations of RCPA exist and where (BNA)
Habitat Needs/Ecology/Life History
- Determine
if food is a limiting factor to population productivity and if chick
growth can be used as an index of habitat quality w/ regard to food
(BNA)
- More
information on RCPA diet to establish relationships with seasonal
movements & fluctuations at roosting sites (BNA)
Effects of Management Practices
- Evaluate
effectiveness & broader applicability of efforts to work with
farmers/ranchers to conserve RCPA in northeast Mexico (BNA)
Demographics
- Develop
information on emigration, immigration, productivity, and mortality to
model RCPA populations (BNA)
[Link
to References]
[Link
to PIF Bird Conservation Plans]
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