Conservation of new world parrots
Subtitle: proceedings of the ICBP Parrot Working Group Meeting, St. Lucia, 1980
By: edited by Roger F. Pasquier
Contributors: Pasquier, Roger F.; International Council for Bird Preservation
Series: Technical bulletin / International Council for Bird Preservation -- no. 1; Technical Bulletin (International Council for Bird Preservation) -- no. 1
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press for the International Council for Bird Preservation
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Washington, D.C.
Language: eng
Number of pages: 485
Subjects: Parrots; Congresses; Rare birds; Endangered species; Birds; Conservation
Other titles: Parrot Working Group Meeting.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Joseph M. Forshaw; title: Conservation strategies. Caribbean islands. Mainland Neotropics; title: Importation and general management. Psittacines imported by the United States (October 1979-June 1980) / Emily C. Roet, David S. Mack and Nicole Duplaix. Better definition and coordination of captive breeding programs / Paolo Bertagnolio. Fecal steroid analysis : non-disruptive technique for psittacine endocrine studies / Lyndall Erb and Arden B. Bercovitz; title: Caribbean islands. Amazona leucocephala : status in the wild and potential for captive breeding / Ramon Noegel. The status and conservation of the Bahamas amazon (Amazona leucocephala bahamensis) / Rod Attrill. An alternative approach to captive breeding of the Grand Cayman amazon (Amazona leucocephala caymanensis) / Thomas Duncan Nichols. Parrot conservation in Jamaica / Patrick Fairbairn. The distribution, ecology, and breeding biology of Jamaican amazon parrots / Alexander Cruz and Steven Gruber. The Puerto Rican amazon (Amazona vittata) : its decline and the program for its conservation / James Wiley. The dilemma of the Amazona imperialis and Amazona arausiaca parrots in Dominica following Hurricane David in 1979 / Felix W. Gregoire. An unusual parrot hybrid / Thomas Duncan Nichols. The St. Lucia amazon (Amazona versicolor) : its changing status and conservation / P.J. Butler. The captive breeding programme for Caribbean amazons at the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust / D.F. Jeggo. St. Vincent amazon (Amazona guildingii) : predators, clutch size, plumage polymorphism, effect of the volcanic eruption, and population estimate / Thomas Duncan Nichols. Status of the St. Vincent amazon breeding program at the Houston Zoological Gardens / Robert J. Berry.; title: The yellow-shouldered amazon (Amazona barbadensis) / Rosemary Low. Some ecological aspects of the yellow-shouldered amazon (Amazona barbadensis rothschildi) / Peter J. Reijns and Jakkus van der Salm; title: Mainland Neotropics. The current distribution and status of mainland neotropical parrots / Robert S. Ridgely. Nesting and status of the maroon-fronted parrot (Rhynchopsitta terrisi) / Peter W. Lawson and Dirk V. Lanning. Status and nesting ecology of the thick-billed parrot (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha) / Dirk V. Lanning and James T. Shiflett. The social behavior of the white-fronted amazon (Amazona albifrons) / Stewart T. Levinson. Comments on the status of the parrots occurring in Peru / John P. O'Neill. Importation and status of canary-winged parakeets (Brotogeris versicolorus P.L.S. Muller) in California / Patricia C. Arrowood. The status of psittacine birds in Guyana / Joseph J. Niles. About the blue macaws, especially the Lear's macaw / Helmut Sick; title: Australia and New Guinea. Summary of the status of endangered Australian parrots / Joseph M. Forshaw; title: The Norfolk Island parakeet (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae cookii); title: a threatened population : status and management options / Joseph M. Forshaw. Functional morphology and evolution of the feeding apparatus in parrots, with special reference to the Pesquet's parrot, Psittrichas fulgidus (Lesson) / Dominique G. Homberger.