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Yellow-Shouldered Amazon

Educational resources on Yellow-Shouldered Amazon

Yellow-Shouldered Amazon or Amazona barbadensis is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Vulnerable due to B1+2abce. IUCN Profile of the Yellow-Shouldered Amazon

Academic web links for the Yellow-Shouldered Amazon.


Reintroduction of Parrots in the Greater Antilles and South America
The yellow-shouldered amazon parrot is one of the most endangered birds in Venezuela (Desenne and Strahl, 1991). A study by Sans and Grajal in 1996 showed that they will feed on a
horticulture.cfans.umn.edu/vd/h5015/99papers/rice.htm

Conservation Success... Parrots fly free in Venezuela
The Yellow-shouldered Amazon has declined much in recent years due in part to exploitation for the pet trade and destruction of its dry desert scrub habitat for a
vtpb-www2.cvm.tamu.edu/brightsmith/Venezuela%20Releases.htm

Bibliography of wild parrots
Successful reintroduction of captive-raised Yellow-shouldered Amazon Parrots on Margarita Island, Venezuela. Conservation Biology 12: 430-441.
vtpb-www2.cvm.tamu.edu/brightsmith/Parrot%20lit%20Vol%20I.htm

Macaw Reintroduction at Tambopata Research Center
...“Successful reintroduction of captive-raised Yellow-shouldered Amazon Parrots on Margarita Island, Venezuela.� Conservation Biology 12(2): 430-441.
vtpb-www2.cvm.tamu.edu/brightsmith/Chico%20report%20TRC%20III.htm

RECENT ORNITHOLOGICAL LITERATURE, No
RECENT ORNITHOLOGICAL LITERATURE, No. 81. Sponsored by the American Ornithologists' Union, the British Ornithologists' Union, and Birds Australia
www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/ROL/ROL81.htm

Biological Conservation Newsletter - No. 119
...(Yellow-shouldered Amazon parrots released into protected habitat on Caribbean island of Margarita) Chambers, H. and Hummer, K. 1992. Clonal repository houses valuable mint
botany.si.edu/pubs/bcn/issue/119.htm

The Tambopata Macaw Project 2000 Report
...“Successful reintroduction of captive-raised Yellow-shouldered Amazon Parrots on Margarita Island, Venezuela.� Conservation Biology 12(2): 430-441.
vtpb-www2.cvm.tamu.edu/brightsmith/Final%20Report%20TRC%202000.htm

Martin Luther King Jr.
Red-lored Amazon (supporting page: Lilacine Amazon) • Blue-cheeked Amazon • Red-browed Amazon • Red-tailed Amazon • Festive Amazon • Yellow-shouldered Amazon •
sthweb.bu.edu/index.php?option=com_awiki&view=mediawiki&article=Red-crowned_Amazon&Itemid=357

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Ecology and behavior >of Amazon parrots on Bonaire­Field assistants >are required to assist with research into the >ecology and behaviour of the Yellow-shouldered >amazon
list.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0701d&L=fwgradjobs&P=1456

326 Zoological Medicine, Spring and Fall 2004 - Tufts OpenCourseWare
Successful reintroduction of captive-raised Yellow-shouldered amazon parrots on Margarita Island, Venezuela. Conservation Biology, 12(2), 1998:430-441.
ocw.tufts.edu/Content/5/readings/241071







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