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

Amazona brasiliensis is commonly known (its common name) as the Red-Tailed Amazon in English. In French (Français), Amazona brasiliensis is commonly known as the Amazone Du Brésil or Amazone À Joues Bleues or Amazone À Queue Rouge. In Spanish (Español), Amazona brasiliensis is commonly known as the Amazona Colirroja or Loro Cariazul or Papagayo De Cara Roja.

Amazona brasiliensis 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 brasiliensis's population trend was decreasing at last assessment, meaning its numbers are declining in the wild.

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

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

Brazil (IUCN Red List).

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

Major Habitat(s): 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist
1.7 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove
1.8 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Swamp (IUCN Red List).

Range: Amazona brasiliensis occurs in a narrow littoral strip, between the Serra do Mar and coast, from Itanham in So Paulo through Paran to extreme north-east Santa Catarina, south-east Brazil¹. Breeding areas are mostly located on small estuarine islands with few on the mainland. Populations were thought to have declined from c.3,500-4,500 birds in the 1980s to fewer than 2,000 individuals by 1991-1992⁴. Recent estimates suggest there are 4,000-5,500 individuals, with c.1,550 in So Paulo¹ and c.3,600 in Paran², although a more recent census of Paran found 3,379 birds, suggesting that the population there is either stable or has suffered a small decline⁹. (IUCN Red List).

CONSERVATION STATUS

Red List Category & Criteria: Amazona brasiliensis is listed as VU A2bcd+3bcd; B1ab(i,ii,iii,v); C2a(i) ver 3.1 (2001) (IUCN Red List).

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

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

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

Red List Rational / Justification : Amazona brasiliensis is listed by IUCN for the following: Trapping for the cage-bird trade and habitat loss are the most important threats to this species. Despite heavy trapping pressure in the early 1990's, the species' range is believed to have remained essentially the same, and populations have remained stable or declined less steeply than it was feared they might. It has consequently been downlisted to Vulnerable. (IUCN Red List).

Threats: 1.1.3 (Wikipedia).

Red List History: Amazona brasiliensis 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 brasiliensis:

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 brasiliensis (IUCN Red List).

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