Cuban Amazon  (Amazona leucocephala)

Range

Native to the Bahamas, Cuba and the Cayman Islands. A. l. leucocephala is found in Cuba (including on the Isle of Youth, also known as the Isle of Pines), A. l. bahamensis on Great Inagua and Abaco in the Bahamas, A. l. caymanensis on Grand Cayman Island, and A. l. hesterna on Cayman Brac and formerly Little Cayman, in the Cayman Islands (2).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

Found in limestone forest, dry mixed broadleaf woodland, savannah with stands of pine Pinus caribaea and palms, mangroves, plantations and gardens (2). This parrot requires abandoned holes in trees, mainly palms, for nesting (4), although uses limestone solution holes on the forest floor for nesting on Abaco (2) (5).

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