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

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

Ara erythrocephala 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 erythrocephala is Gosse, 1847 (IUCN Red List).

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

Jamaica [RE] (IUCN Red List).

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

Range: Ara erythrocephala was described by Gosse in 1847 as occurring in the mountains of Trelawny and St Anne's, Jamaica, based on a bird "procured by Mr White, proprietor of the Oxford Estate"¹. It was presumably hunted to extinction in the early 19th century. (IUCN Red List).

CONSERVATION STATUS

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

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

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

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

Red List Rational / Justification : Ara erythrocephala is listed by IUCN for the following: Jamaican Green-and-yellow Macaw Ara erythrocephala was described by Gosse in 1847 as occurring in the mountains of Trelawny and St Anne's, Jamaica, based on a bird "procured by Mr White, proprietor of the Oxford Estate". It was presumably hunted to extinction in the early 19th century. Taxonomy It is possible that this species was that apparently named as Anadorhynchus (sic.) caerulens by Gmelin (in which case this name would have priority). The original descriptions require re-evaluation. (IUCN Red List).

Red List History: Ara erythrocephala 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 erythrocephala:

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 erythrocephala (IUCN Red List).

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