Program: Yellow-naped Amazon Conservation
Yellow-naped Amazons can be found in deciduous forest, pine-oak woodland, gallery forest along waterways, dry savanna woodland and dry scrubland with remnant woodlots or scattered trees in their small Central American range.
Unfortunately, these parrots have declined rapidly throughout their range because of heavy trapping and habitat loss. Numbers once seen in Nicaragua have diminished at some sites, and surveys at six sites in Costa Rica noted a decline of 48.9% between 2005 and 2016. Hotter and longer dry seasons may also have an impact. Nest cavity invasion by Africanized bees has caused the loss of young.
Beginning in 2007, WPT has supported critical work examining the Yellow-naped Amazon's population status, ecology and habitat use, as well as efforts monitoring and protecting nests in Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama and Mexico.
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