Endangered?

[patdbunny]

Learn something new every day.

I just learned yesterday that the sun conure is common in US aviculture, but endangered in the wild.
http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist ... s/142601/0

And the cape parrot is uncommon in US aviculture, but not endangered in the wild.
http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist ... s/142531/0

Makes me curious to search other species that we think of as "common" and how common they truly are in the wild.

[Michael]

Two things about the Cape Parrot. First of all, the South African P. robustus robustus subspecies is genuinely endangered and not bred in the US. Second of all, the P. r. fuscicollis and P. r. suahelicus are hardly common parrots in the wild. They have relatively low populations and are not common to see. It is just that these low populations are the norm rather than a decline so it does not concern them as endangered. My guess is there are way more Senegal Parrots in the wild than Capes of all three subspecies. So the stability of the P. r. f. and P. r. s. populations show the overall Cape Parrot species to be of least concern since the South African P. r. r. population represents a smaller part of the Cape Parrot species even before its decline.