Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Psittaciformes > Psittacidae > Amazona > Amazona leucocephala| | Amazona leucocephala (Cuban Parrot; Cuban Amazon; Bahaman Parrot) | |
The Cuban Amazon, Amazona leucocephala, also known as Cuban Parrot or the Rose-throated Parrot, is a medium-sized mainly green parrot found in woodlands and dry forests of Cuba, the Bahamas and Cayman Islands in the Caribbean. |
| Adult Weight [1] | 244 grams |  | | Clutch Size [2] | 4 |
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BirdLife Species Factsheet: View Factsheet
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IBA Criteria |
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Climate |
Land Use |
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Alejandro de Humboldt |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Alturas de Banao |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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Bluff Forest |
Cayman Islands (to UK) |
A1, A2 |
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Botanic Park and Salina Reserve |
Cayman Islands (to UK) |
A1, A2 |
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Central Mangrove Wetland |
Cayman Islands (to UK) |
A1, A4i, B4i |
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Ciénaga de Zapata |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Cienaga de Lanier y Sur de la Isla de la Juventud |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Desembarco del Granma |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Eastern Dry Forest |
Cayman Islands (to UK) |
A1, A2 |
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Frank Sound Forest |
Cayman Islands (to UK) |
A1, A2 |
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Franklin's Forest |
Cayman Islands (to UK) |
A1, A2 |
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Gran Humedal del Norte de Ciego de Ávila |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, B4i, B4ii |
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Great Inagua |
Bahamas |
A1, A4i, A4iii, B4i |
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Guanahacabibes |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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La Mensura |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Limones-Tuabaquey |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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Mastic Reserve |
Cayman Islands (to UK) |
A1, A2 |
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Mil Cumbres |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Pico Cristal |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Sierra del Chorrillo |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Southern Abaco |
Bahamas |
A1, A2, B4ii |
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Topes de Collantes |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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| Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Map |
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Caribbean Islands |
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. |
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Institutions (Zoos, etc.) |
MapsSpecies recognized by Peterson A.P., 23-Jan-2007, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in  Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Arendt, W.J.; Faaborg, J.; Wallace, G.E.; Garrido, O.H. 2004. Biometrics of
birds throughout the Greater Caribbean basin. Proceedings of the Western
Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology. 8(1): 1-33. ♦ 2Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 3Gundlach's Hawk, BirdLife International (1992) Threatened Birds of the Americas. Cambridge, UK: BirdLife International. Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 gis.wwfus.org/wildfinderImportant Bird Areas provided by BirdLife International (2010) Important Bird Areas. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 29/12/2010 |
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