Ara gossei

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
ANIMALIA CHORDATA AVES PSITTACIFORMES PSITTACIDAE

Scientific Name: Ara gossei
Species Authority: Rothschild, 1905
Common Name/s:
English Jamaican Red Macaw

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria: Extinct     ver 3.1
Year Assessed: 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 gossei is known only from the work of Gosse in 1847 based on "specimen shot about 1765, by Mr Odell" in the mountains of Hanover Parish, about 10 miles east of Lucea, Jamaica2.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology: Nothing is known, although it is likely to have been typical of the genus.

Systems: Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s): It was presumably hunted to extinction around the end of the 18th century.

Citation: BirdLife International 2008. Ara gossei. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 February 2012.
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