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Location:

Arizona Trail - near Mexican wolves

Thick-billed Parrot

  • Boris (M) 7/10/1996

  • Plucker (F) 8/4/1998

  • Suzie (F) 8/23/2017

Identifying Features:

History:

  • All hand reared

More Information:

The parrots are fed twice a day in rectangular pans in the catch cages in both enclosures. They are allowed to breed and have several choices of nest boxes. There is a switch in each vestibule to turn on the evaporative coolers connected to the large concrete nest trees.

  • Population: 2,500

  • IUCN Status: Endangered; trend - decreasing

  • Habitat: temperate conifer and mature pine-oak forests, mainly in northern Mexico's Siera Madre Occidental; formerly occurred in Arizona and New Mexico

  • Diet is mostly comprised of pine seeds

  • Only surviving parrot species native to North America

  • This is a parrot of high mountain ranges, or "sky islands".

  • Once ranged into New Mexico and Arizona

  • Intruduction attemps have been unsuccessful

  • Mainly threatened by habitat destruction

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