Ara atwoodi is a chordate, or more specifically a bird, in the Psittacidae family.

Ara atwoodi is commonly known (its common name) as the Dominican Green-And-Yellow Macaw in English.

Ara atwoodi is classified as extinct 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 Ara atwoodi is Clark, 1908 (IUCN Red List).

Country Distribution: Ara atwoodi is found in the following countries:

Dominica [RE] (IUCN Red List).

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

Range: Ara atwoodi is known only from the writings of Atwood in 1791, and was endemic to Dominica². Atwood notes that birds were captured both for food and pets², and presumably this persecution led to their extinction in the late 18th or early 19th century. (IUCN Red List).

CONSERVATION STATUS

Red List Category & Criteria: Ara atwoodi is listed as EX ver 3.1 (2001) (IUCN Red List).

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

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

Red List Evaluator: The Red List Evaluator for Ara atwoodi is listed by IUCN as Stattersfield, A. (BirdLife International Red List Authority) & Brooks, T. (Conservation International) (IUCN Red List).

Red List Rational / Justification : Ara atwoodi is listed by IUCN for the following: Dominican Green-and-yellow Macaw Ara atwoodi is known only from the writings of Atwood in 1791, and was endemic to Dominica. Atwood notes that birds were captured both for food and pets, and presumably this persecution led to their extinction in the late 18th or early 19th century. Taxonomy Clark initially included macaws from Dominica in A. guadeloupensis, but on discovery of Atwood's text, described them as distinct. (IUCN Red List).

Red List History: Ara atwoodi 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 Ara atwoodi:

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).

Links: IUCN Red List Profile for Ara atwoodi (IUCN Red List).

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