he Parrot Society UK started supporting the main project with the Yellow-shouldered Amazon (Amazona barbardensis) headed up by Sam Williams on the Caribbean island of Bonaire in 2010, but had supported previous work by Sam there earlier in the decade. The Dutch administered island of Bonaire is 113 sq. miles (249 sq. kilometres) in size with a human population of just under 16,000 off the coast of Venezuela.