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

Amazona guildingii is commonly known (its common name) as the St Vincent Parrot in English. In French (Français), Amazona guildingii is commonly known as the Amazone De Guilding or Amazone De Saint-Vincent. In Spanish (Español), Amazona guildingii is commonly known as the Amazona De San Vincente.

Amazona guildingii 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 guildingii'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 guildingii is (Vigors, 1837) (IUCN Red List).

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

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (IUCN Red List).

Biome(s)/Ecosystem(s): IUCN lists the following as biomes for Amazona guildingii: 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 guildingii occurs on the upper west and east ridges of St Vincent (St Vincent and the Grenadines), where it declined seriously through the 20th century until the early 1980s. Following recent conservation action, numbers increased from 370-470 individuals in 1982 to c.800 in 1994¹. (IUCN Red List).

CONSERVATION STATUS

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

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

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

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

Red List Rational / Justification : Amazona guildingii is listed by IUCN for the following: Habitat conservation, law enforcement and public awareness campaigns have halted this species' slide towards extinction, and even reversed some of the previous declines. However, it still qualifies as Vulnerable because it has a very small population and range on a single island. (IUCN Red List).

Threats: 1.1.2 (Wikipedia).

Red List History: Amazona guildingii 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 guildingii:

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.

Scott, P. (ed.) 1965. Section XIII. Preliminary List of Rare Mammals and Birds. In: The Launching of a New Ark, pp. 15–207. First Report of the President and Trustees of the World Wildlife Fund. An International Foundation for saving the world's wildlife and wild places 1961–1964. Collins, London.

(IUCN Red List).

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

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