page_title: List of threatened birds of Brazil
section_title: Order Psittaciformes (parrots, macaws, parakeets)
hierarchical_section_title: List of threatened birds of Brazil / Threatened birds of Brazil - ICMBio (2014) / Order Psittaciformes (parrots, macaws, parakeets)
caption_attribution_description: English: Lear's Macaw Anodorhynchus leari
context_page_description: Brazil has more than 1900 birds species, and according to Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation and Ministry of the Environment, there are 240 species and subspecies of Brazilian birds enlisted as threatened species, 6 as extincts and two as extinct in the wild. the Brazilian definition uses the same criteria and categories of IUCN. Among the 33 bird orders which occurs in Brazil, 22 has threatened species. The passerines, besides being the most diverse order in Brazil, is also the order with most species on Brazilian red list, immediately before the Parrots. The Brazilian Northeast, notably in Atlantic forest and Caatinga, has the most number of endemic and threatened birds, and two of them, the Alagoas curassow and the Spix's macaw, has been considered extinct in the wild. The "Pernambuco Center" of endemism presents many critically endangered species due the intense destruction of the Atlantic forest. Some species might be extinct in Brazil, like the Glaucous macaw and the Eskimo curlew.
  The actual list of threatened species was published in Diário Oficial da União, on December 17, 2014.
context_section_description: Family Psittacidae
  Amazona pretrei (Red-spectacled amazon) VU  - ICMBio status VU
  Amazona rhodocorytha (Red-browed amazon) EN  - ICMBio status VU
  Amazona vinacea (Vinaceous-breasted amazon) EN  - ICMBio status VU
  Anodorhynchus leari (Lear's macaw) EN  - ICMBio status EN
  Anodorhynchus glaucus (Glaucous macaw) CR  - ICMBio status EX
  Aratinga solstitialis (Sun parakeet) EN  - ICMBio status EN
  Cyanopsitta spixii (Spix's macaw) CR  - ICMBio status CR(PExW)
  Guaruba guarouba (Golden parakeet) VU  - ICMBio status VU
  Pionus reichenowi (Reichenow's blue-headed parrot) LC  - ICMBio status VU
  Pyrilia vulturina (Vulturine parrot) VU  - ICMBio status VU
  Pyrrhura cruentata (Ochre-marked parakeet) VU  - ICMBio status VU
  Pyrrhura lepida (Pearly parakeet) VU  - ICMBio status VU
  Pyrrhura lepida lepida (Pearly parakeet) NE - ICMBio status VU
  Pyrrhura griseipectus (Grey-breasted parakeet) CR  - ICMBio status EN
  Pyrrhura leucotis (White-eared parakeet) NT  - ICMBio status VU
  Pyrrhura pfrimeri (Pfrimer's parakeet) EN  - ICMBio status EN
  Touit melanonotus (Brown-backed parrotlet) EN  - ICMBio status VU
  Touit surdus (Golden-tailed parrotlet) VU  - ICMBio status VU
caption: The Lear's macaw (Anodorhynchus leari) is an endangered macaw from Northeastern Brazil.
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