Cuban Parrot

Amazona leucocephala

The Cuban Parrot is recognized by its pinky-red throat and cheeks, white around the eyes and fore crown, a purple-pink belly, and a light yellow beak.

This beautiful Parrot inhabits the dense woodland in Cuba and the Bahamas and can also be found living in the dry forests of the Cayman Islands. Their diet consists mainly of the nectar from the base of flowers in the Coral trees. Birdlife International has classified them as “Near Threatened”. Unfortunately, this decline in the Cuban Parrot population is the result from agricultural conversions, hurricane damage to nesting trees, trapping of live birds for local and international trade, and pushing over nest trees to obtain chicks for trade. Flocks of the Cuban Parrot documented living in the Humbolt National Park in Cuba, give hope that environmental educational programs are convincing people that Cuban Parrots should be kept in the wild.

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