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The Blue-cheeked Amazon Amazona dufresniana: a review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2010

D. C. Wege  and
N. J. Collar
D. C. Wege
Affiliation:
International Council for Bird Preservation, 32 Cambridge Road, Girton, Cambridge CB3 0PJ, U.K.
N. J. Collar
Affiliation:
International Council for Bird Preservation, 32 Cambridge Road, Girton, Cambridge CB3 0PJ, U.K.
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The Blue-cheeked Amazon Amazona dufresniana occupies tropical and subtropical forest in north-eastern South America in eastern Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana, where it remains a very little known species, apparently living in scattered pairs in the interior when breeding, but with irregular movements to the coastal regions in (albeit now small) flocks in July and August. Nothing is recorded of its feeding or breeding habits, nor is it known to be at serious risk from habitat loss or trade, although both these factors may have operated against the species in the past. It occurs in two protected areas and deserves to be a target species of any fieldwork in the region aimed at obtaining status information on areas or faunas.

Type
Research Article
Information
Bird Conservation International , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , December 1991 , pp. 317 - 328
Copyright
Copyright © Birdlife International 1991

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