Amazona martinicana

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	PSITTACIFORMES	PSITTACIDAE

Scientific Name:	Amazona martinicana
Species Authority:	A. H. Clark, 1905
Common Name/s: English – Martinique Amazon, Martinique Parrot

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:	Amazona martinicana was described from Martinique (to France) by Labat in 1742, and by Buffon in 1779, and named by Clark based on these descriptions1. Labat wrote that "the parrot is too common a bird for me to stop to give a description of it"1, and so the species must have declined very rapidly to extinction in the latter half of the 18th century.
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Nothing is known but it is likely to have been a forest species.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):

Hunting is likely to have caused its extinction.

Bibliography [top]

Clark, A. H. 1905. The West Indian parrots. The Auk 22: 337-344.