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Ms. Molly Dupin
New Mexico State University

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Published: 30 September 2020 in Diversity
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Yellow-naped amazons, Amazona auropalliata, have experienced a dramatic population decline due to persistent habitat loss and poaching. In 2017, BirdLife International changed the species’ status from threatened to endangered and estimated that between 10,000 and 50,000 individuals remained in the wild. An accurate estimate of the number of remaining wild individuals is critical to implementing effective conservation plans. Wright et al. conducted roost count surveys in Costa Rica and Nicaragua during 2016 and published their data in 2019; however, no population data exists for the rest of the range. We conducted roost counts at 28 sites across Mexico, Guatemala, and the Bay Islands in Roatan during 2018 and 2019. We counted 679 birds and combined our data with the published Wright et al. (2019) data for a total of 2361 wild yellow-naped amazons observed across the species’ range. There were fewer roosts detected in the northern region of the range than in the southern region. We found that roosts were most likely to occur in built-up rural and pasture habitat, with 71% found within 100 m of human habitation. Our results illustrate the need for immediate conservation action to mitigate decline, such as enforced legal action against poaching, nest guarding, and increased community education efforts.

ACS Style

Molly K. Dupin; Christine R. Dahlin; Timothy F. Wright. Range-Wide Population Assessment of the Endangered Yellow-Naped Amazon (Amazona auropalliata). Diversity 2020, 12, 377 .

AMA Style

Molly K. Dupin, Christine R. Dahlin, Timothy F. Wright. Range-Wide Population Assessment of the Endangered Yellow-Naped Amazon (Amazona auropalliata). Diversity. 2020; 12 (10):377.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Molly K. Dupin; Christine R. Dahlin; Timothy F. Wright. 2020. "Range-Wide Population Assessment of the Endangered Yellow-Naped Amazon (Amazona auropalliata)." Diversity 12, no. 10: 377.