Golden-Capped Parakeet

Description:

There has been extensive and continuing clearance and fragmentation of suitable habitat for coffee, soybean and sugarcane plantations in São Paulo, and cattle-ranching in Goiás and Minas Gerais. Trapping for trade has probably had a significant impact since it was relatively common in illegal Brazilian markets in the mid-1980s and imported in hundreds into West Germany in the early 1980s. However, the precise effect is obfuscated by high numbers of captive-bred birds, which presumably reduce pressure on remaining wild populations. Despite its tendency to occasionally nest near human habitation, it is apparently not the most favoured species for the pet trade. There are no records of persecution in response to crop degradation.

Habitat:

Occurs from the Recôncavo area in Bahia, south to Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Goiás and Paraná; south-east Brazil.

Notes:

This specimen is of the zoo in my city, "Ilha de São Pedro" ("St. Peter Island")