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

Amazona rhodocorytha is commonly known (its common name) as the Red-Browed Amazon in English. In French (Français), Amazona rhodocorytha is commonly known as the Amazone À Cronne Rouge or Amazone À Sourcils Rouges. In Spanish (Español), Amazona rhodocorytha is commonly known as the Amazona Coronirroja or Amazona Crestirroja.

Amazona rhodocorytha is classified as endangered 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 rhodocorytha'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 rhodocorytha is (Salvadori, 1890) (IUCN Red List).

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

Brazil (IUCN Red List).

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

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

Range: Amazona rhodocorytha is now rare and local in the isolated Atlantic forest fragments of east Brazil. There are recent records from three sites in south-east Bahia, and five in each of Esprito Santo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro. It was first discovered in north So Paulo in the early 1990s³. A disjunct population at So Miguel dos Campos, Alagoas, has not been recorded since the mid-1980s. It was formerly abundant but, despite the recent accumulation of more records and localities, has clearly declined significantly. It is still fairly common at a few sites, most notably on Ilha Grande⁴, at Sooretama and adjacent Linhares, but the total population was estimated at only 845 birds in 1999³. (IUCN Red List).

CONSERVATION STATUS

Red List Category & Criteria: Amazona rhodocorytha is listed as EN B1ab(i,ii,iii,v); C2a(i) ver 3.1 (2001) (IUCN Red List).

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

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

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

Red List Rational / Justification : Amazona rhodocorytha is listed by IUCN for the following: This species is Endangered owing to its very small, severely fragmented and declining range and population. Suitable Atlantic forest habitat clearance continues and trapping for the cage-bird trade is an additional threat. (IUCN Red List).

Threats: 1.1.3 (Wikipedia).

Red List History: Amazona rhodocorytha 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 rhodocorytha:

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

(IUCN Red List).

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

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