Lilacine Amazon :: Amazona lilacina

Bad at Goodbyes :: Episode 037

On today’s show we learn about the Lilacine Amazon, a critically endangered parrot native to South America, specifically southwestern Ecuador, near the Pacific Coast.

• (00:05) Intro
• (02:05) Species Information
• (30:15) Citations
• (31:59) Music
• (38:12) Pledge

For more information about Lilacine Amazon and Ecuadorian conservation, see the Fundación Jocotoco at https://jocotoco.org/

Research for today’s show was compiled from:

• American Bird Conservancy – https://abcbirds.org/bird/lilacine-amazon/
• Biddle, R (2021). “The conservation and ecology of a newly described Amazon parrot; Amazona lilacina.” Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University in collaboration with The North of England Zoological Society. – https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/628526
• BirdLife International (2020). “Species factsheet: Lilacine Amazon Amazona lilacina.” – https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/lilacine-amazon-amazona-lilacina
• In Birds of the World (B. K. Keeney, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. – Collar, N., J. del Hoyo, P. F. D. Boesman, G. M. Kirwan, and C. J. Sharpe (2022). “Red-lored Amazon (Amazona autumnalis), version 1.1.” – https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.relpar.01.1
• Diversity 13, no. 1: 15. Biddle, Rebecca, Ivette Solis-Ponce, Martin Jones, Mark Pilgrim, and Stuart Marsden. 2021. "Parrot Ownership and Capture in Coastal Ecuador: Developing a Trapping Pressure Index" – https://doi.org/10.3390/d13010015
• EAZA Best Practice Guidelines for Ecuadorian Amazon Parrot (Amazona lilacina) -1st Edition. Pilgrim, M & Biddle, B. (2016). European Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.61024/BPG2016EcuadorianAmazonParrotEN
• Field recording from Xeno-Canto, Karl Berg, XC282424. – https://www.xeno-canto.org/282424
• Field recording from Xeno-Canto, Karl Berg, XC282426. – https://www.xeno-canto.org/282426
• International Zoo Yearbook, 37, 195–202. Pilgrim, M. (2000). “Development of the European endangered species Programme (EEP) for the Ecuadorian or Lilacine amazon.” – https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-1090.2000.tb00723.x
• The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T22728296A181432250. BirdLife International. 2020. “Amazona lilacina.” – https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22728296A181432250.en
• Manual of Parrot Behavior. Graham, Jennifer & Wright, Timothy & Dooling, Robert & Korbel, Ruediger. (2008). “Sensory Capacities of Parrots.” – https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470344651.ch4
• Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilacine_amazon

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