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

Amazona arausiaca is commonly known (its common name) as the Red-Necked Parrot in English. In French (Français), Amazona arausiaca is commonly known as the Amazone De Bouquet or Amazone À Cou Rouge. In Spanish (Español), Amazona arausiaca is commonly known as the Amazona Cabenazul or Amazona Cabeza Azul or Amazona Gorgirroja.

Amazona arausiaca is classified as vulnerable 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. Amazona arausiaca's population trend was increasing at last assessment, meaning its numbers are climbing in the wild.

Species Authority: The species authority, or the name(s) of scientist(s) or person(s) who first described Amazona arausiaca is (Mller, 1776) (IUCN Red List).

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

Dominica (IUCN Red List).

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

Major Habitat(s): 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist
1.9 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
11.3 Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations (IUCN Red List).

Range: Amazona arausiaca is concentrated around the Morne Diablotin massif in the north of Dominica, with birds also occupying habitat in the centre of the island and Morne Trois Pitons National Park in the south⁵. Many areas have been reoccupied after the species disappeared from them in the aftermath of the destructive Hurricane David in 1979⁵. Numbers have risen from possibly as few as 150 in 1980 to 750-800 birds in 2003⁶. (IUCN Red List).

CONSERVATION STATUS

Red List Category & Criteria: Amazona arausiaca is listed as VU D1+2 ver 3.1 (2001) (IUCN Red List).

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

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

Red List Evaluator: The Red List Evaluator for Amazona arausiaca is listed by IUCN as Capper, D., Wege, D. & Benstead, P. (BirdLife International Red List Authority) (IUCN Red List).

Red List Rational / Justification : Amazona arausiaca is listed by IUCN for the following: Conservation action has helped this species recover from an all-time population low in 1980. It still qualifies as Vulnerable because numbers remain very small and its range is small and restricted to a single island. However, if there are any future declines in available habitat, it will automatically be listed as Endangered. (IUCN Red List).

Threats: 1.1.3 (Wikipedia).

Red List History: Amazona arausiaca 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 arausiaca:

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

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.

Collar, N.J. and Andrew, P. 1988. Birds to Watch. The ICBP World Checklist of Threatened Birds. ICBP Technical Publication No. 8. Page Bros. (Norwich) Ltd, Norfolk, England.

Collar, N.J., Crosby, M.J. and Stattersfield, A.J. 1994. Birds to Watch 2. The World List of Threatened Birds BirdLife International. Page Bros (Norwich) Ltd, U.K.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

(IUCN Red List).

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

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