Yellow-shouldered Amazon Amazona barbadensis

Photo: Hans Smulders

Classification

Psittacidae [family]

Amazona [genus] (4)

Amazona [genus] (4)

Recorded on	Aruba
	Bonaire
	Klein Bonaire
	Curaçao

Presence status	Indigenous (1) - Bonaire
	Indigenous (1) - Klein Bonaire
	Introduced (2) - Curaçao
	No longer present (0) - Aruba

Distribution description	Northern Venezuela and the adjacent islands La Blanquilla, Isla Margarita and Bonaire.

Notes on presence status	Wild population of Aruba extirpated by 1947. Introduced on Curaçao in small numbers. Breeding bird.

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