Amazona aestiva is a chordate, or more specifically a bird, in the Psittacidae family.

Amazona aestiva is commonly known (its common name) as the Blue-Fronted Parrot in English.

Amazona aestiva is classified as least concern by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species maintained by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

Species Authority: The species authority, or the name(s) of scientist(s) or person(s) who first described Amazona aestiva is (Linnaeus, 1758) (IUCN Red List).

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Country Distribution: Amazona aestiva is found in the following countries:

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay (IUCN Red List).

Biome(s)/Ecosystem(s): IUCN lists the following as biomes for Amazona aestiva: Terrestrial (IUCN Red List).

Major Habitat(s): 1.5 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist 2.1 Savanna - Dry 4.6 Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded Lowland (IUCN Red List).

Range: This species has a large range, with an estimated global Extent of Occurrence of 4,200,000 km. The global population size has not been quantified, but it is believed to be large as the species is described as 'abundant' in at least parts of its range (del Hoyo et al. 1997). Global population trends have not been quantified; there is evidence of a population decline (del Hoyo et al. 1997), but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e. declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern. Note, however, that this species has been heavily traded: since 1981 when it was listed on CITES Appendix II, 413,505 wild-caught individuals have been recorded in international trade (UNEP-WCMC CITES Trade Database, January 2005). (IUCN Red List).

CONSERVATION STATUS

Red List Category & Criteria: Amazona aestiva is listed as LC ver 3.1 (2001) (IUCN Red List).

Year Assessed: Amazona aestiva's status was assessed in 2004 (IUCN Red List).

Assessor: Amazona aestiva's Red List status was evaluated by BirdLife International (IUCN Red List).

Red List Evaluator: The Red List Evaluator for Amazona aestiva is listed by IUCN as Ekstrom, J. & Butchart, S. (BirdLife International Red List Authority) (IUCN Red List).

Red List Rational / Justification : Amazona aestiva is listed by IUCN for the following: This species has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 4,200,000 km. The global population size has not been quantified, but it is believed to be large as the species is described as 'abundant' in at least parts of its range (del Hoyo et al. 1997). Global population trends have not been quantified; there is evidence of a population decline (del Hoyo et al. 1997), but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e., declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern. (IUCN Red List).

Red List History: Amazona aestiva was listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 1988 (IUCN Red List).

Data Sources for IUCN data: The following is a list of citations from the IUCN web site for Amazona aestiva:

Citations listed by IUCN

Bird Reference Citations. The numbers inserted in the text accounts above (usually in bold) refer to references. For further details on these references, click on the BirdLife International link above to go to the specific species account on the BirdLife web site. In some cases, particularly in the taxonomic notes, the references are cited using the author names. Details for these can be found on the BirdLife International web site at the following two places:
For References from A–L.
For References from M–Z.

BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.

BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.

(IUCN Red List).

References: Wikipedia lists the following as references for Amazona aestiva:
BirdLife International (2004). Amazona aestiva. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern (Wikipedia).

Links: IUCN Red List Profile for Amazona aestiva (IUCN Red List).

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