Thick-billed parrot  (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha)

Range

The species’ remaining stronghold occurs in the mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico. Today, thick-billed parrots are restricted to this area, having been lost from Arizona and New Mexico in the United States (5).

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

Habitat

Thick-billed parrots inhabit old-growth coniferous forests at altitudes above 1,200 metres (2).

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