Yellow-shouldered Amazon (Amazona barbadensis)

Other Names (World)
Yellow-shouldered Amazon, Yellow-shouldered Parrot

Family
Psittacidae (Parrots)

Size
33 - 36 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gmelin, 1788)

Habitat
Xerophytic vegetation, desert shrublands dominated by cacti and low thorn-bushes or trees. From sea-level - 450 m.

Range (Guide)

Aruba (E) (B), Netherlands Antilles (B), Venezuela (B).

Northern Venezuela and islands of Margarita and La Blanquilla; also Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles).

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 2,500 - 9,999 (2010) and decreasing.

Status VU
Habitat destruction through tourist and associated developments, trapping for the cage-bird trade are the main threats.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Noisy and raucous, including a dry rattling 'screeet' and a trilling 'scree-ee-ee-ak'.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files

Yellow-shouldered Amazon (Amazona barbadensis) [XC218353]
by Joost van Bruggen from Foothills of Serrania de San Luis, Falcon, Venezuela (call)

Yellow-shouldered Amazon (Amazona barbadensis) [XC669348]
by id from Lake Goto, Bonaire, Netherlands (call)

Subspecies
Sometimes placed in genus Chrysotis.

Proposed subspecies rothschildi for Caribbean islands invalid.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

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