BY DR. DAVID WAUGH DIRECTOR, LORO PARQUE FUNDACIÓN


AFTER 20 YEARS, GOOD NEWS ABOUT THE AMAZONS OF TAMAULIPAS, MEXICO


T


he coastal plain of eastern Tamaulipas State in Mexico supports isolated populations of two globally


endangered Amazon parrots, the Yellow- headed Amazon (Amazonaoratrix) and Green-cheeked Amazon ( A. viridigenalis), and healthy populations of the Red-lored Amazon (A. autumnalis). A. viridigenalis has a small range and is found only on the Atlantic slope of north-eastern Mexico. In the 1990’s intense studies of these species in the Tamaulipas region, focused on 550 ha of the Los Colorados Ranch, 5km from the Gulf of Mexico, were undertaken by Dr. Ernersto Enkerlin- Hoeflich, now of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico. Back then, the research site was made up of a mixture of native woodland


06 32 BIRD SCENE


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