Thick-billed Parrot
Common
Name: Thick-billed Parrot (TBPA)
Scientific
Name:
Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha
Global/Continental
Conservation Status: IUCN
2004 Red List – EN (Endangered)
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. 406 (Snyder et al. 1999); Macias et al. (2000); Collar
(1997); Juniper and Parr (1998); Forshaw (1989).
Distribution:
Mexico (breeds in mts of Chihuahua and Durango, probably elsewhere
in Sierra Madre Occidental of c and n Mexico); wanders widely from c
Sonora s to Jalisco and Michoacán, formerly recorded n to s-c and se AZ
and probably sw NM (A.O.U. 1998)
Habitat
Associations: Pine
forest, pine-oak forest (1500 - 3400 m; subtropical & temperate zones)
(AOU 1998)
Sources
of Research/monitoring Needs: Arizona
PIF Bird Conservation Plan; BNA No. 406 (Snyder et al. 1999); PIF
Monitoring Needs document (Partners in Flight Science Committee 2004)
PIF
Continental Plan Monitoring Needs Category: Mo1
(Essentially no data on population trend); Mo4 (2/3 or more of Western
Hemisphere breeding range is south of
U.S.
(PIF Monitoring Needs doc)
RESEARCH/MONITORING NEEDS (source(s) of need)
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)
Distribution of populations/habitats/breeding sites
- Surveys
of TBPA nesting and potential nesting areas to allow conservation of
crucial habitat (BNA)
Predation
- Determine
whether goshawks are a threat to TBPA in
Mexico
(
Arizona
)
Migration
- Determine
migratory habits and migration routes of TBPA (
Arizona
; BNA)
Wintering
- Information
on TBPA wintering habitat use and range, as well as threats (BNA)
Captive Breeding/Reintroduction
- Determine
feasibility of brood manipulation for captive rearing of TBPA (
Arizona
)
- Determine
whether a migrant or resident population of TBPAs would be most likely
to survive a reintroduction in
Arizona
(
Arizona
)
- Develop
low risk methods for translocation of wild-caught TBPAs (
Arizona
)
[Link
to References]
[Link
to PIF Bird Conservation Plans]
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