A large green parrot native to Mexico. Adults show blue to lilac tones across the crown.
Adults are mostly green, with blue-lilac feathers across the crown and nape. The extent and shade vary among subspecies.
Tella and Hiraldo’s 2014 study compiled Mexican trade records for 22 parrot species. For the Lilac-crowned Amazon, the supplement lists 415 birds seized in Mexico in 1995–2005 and 173 seized at the US border in 1992–2005. CITES legal-export records list 2,317 birds in 1981–1991 and 525 in 1992–2005.
The appendix lists market prices of $50 in Mexico and $575 in the United States; Mexico had allowed this species to be legally trapped in eight years between 1979 and 2005. The article says the Lilac-crowned Amazon was first globally listed as threatened in 2006 and that excessive domestic and international captures were among the reasons for that listing.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
The article says the Lilac-crowned Amazon was first globally listed as threatened in 2006 and that excessive domestic and international captures were among the reasons reported for its listing.