Ara erythrocephala

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	PSITTACIFORMES	PSITTACIDAE

Scientific Name:	Ara erythrocephala
Species Authority:	Gosse, 1847
Common Name/s: English – Jamaican Green-and-yellow Macaw

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Extinct     ver 3.1
Year Published:	2008
Assessor/s:	BirdLife International
Reviewer/s:	Bird, J., Butchart, S.
History:	2004 – Extinct 2000 – Extinct 1994 – Extinct 1988 – Extinct

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Ara erythrocephala was described by Gosse in 1847 as occurring in the mountains of Trelawny and St Anne's, Jamaica, based on a bird "procured by Mr White, proprietor of the Oxford Estate"1. It is thought to have become extinct in the early 19th century.
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It was described by Gosse as occurring in the mountains, presumably in forest.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):

It was presumably hunted to extinction.

Bibliography [top]

Rothschild, W. 1905. Notes on extinct parrots from the West Indies. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 16: 13-15.