Order
Psittaciformes
Family
Psittacidae
Genus
Amazona
 
Neotropical Birds
Version  1.0
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Lilac-crowned Parrot Amazona finschi

Katherine Renton
Version: 1.0 — Published March 1, 2009

References

Introduction

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Marín-Togo, M.C., T.C. Monterrubio-Rico, K. Renton, Y. Rubio-Rocha, C. Macías-Caballero, J.M. Ortega-Rodríguez, and R. Cancino-Murillo. 2012. Reduced current distribution of Psittacidae on the Mexican Pacific coast: potential impacts of habitat loss and capture for trade. Biodiversity and Conservation 21: 451-473.

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Renton, K. 2001. Lilac-crowned Parrot diet and food resource availability: resource tracking by a parrot seed predator. Condor 103: 62-69

Renton, K. 2002. Influence of environmental variability on the growth of Lilac-crowned Parrot nestlings. Ibis 144: 331–339.

Renton, K., and E.E. Iñigo Elias. 2003. AS001: Evaluación del estado actual de las poblaciones de loro corona lila (Amazona finschi) en México. Unpublished Report. CONABIO, Mexico.

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Renton, K., and A. Salinas Melgoza. 2004. Climatic variability, nest predation, and reproductive output of Lilac-crowned Parrots (Amazona finschi) in tropical dry forest of western Mexico. Auk 121: 1214–1225.

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Salinas Melgoza, A. 2003. Dinámica espacio-temporal de individuos juveniles del loro corona lila (Amazona finschi) en el bosque seco de la costa de Jalisco. Masters Thesis. Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico.

Salinas-Melgoza, A., and K. Renton. 2005. Seasonal variation in activity patterns of juvenile Lilac-crowned Parrots. Wilson Bulletin 117: 291-295.

Salinas Melgoza, A., and K. Renton. 2007. Post-fledging survival and development of juvenile Lilac-crowned Parrots. Journal of Wildlife Management 71: 43–50.

Salinas Melgoza, A., V. Salinas-Melgoza, and K. Renton. 2009. Factors influencing nest spacing of a secondary cavity-nesting parrot: habitat heterogeneity and proximity of conspecifics. Condor 111: 305-313.

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Villaseñor-Sánchez, E. I., R. Dirzo, and K. Renton. 2010. Importance of the Lilac-crowned Parrot in pre-dispersal seed predation of Astronium graveolens in a Mexican tropical dry forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 26: 1-10.

Recommended Citation

Renton, K. (2009). Lilac-crowned Parrot (Amazona finschi), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.licpar.01
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