Martinique Amazon (Amazona martinicana)

Year Last Seen:

1779

Comments:

This species formerly occurred on Martinique, but it has been driven to extinction by hunting. The last record dates from 1779 and it is thought to have gone extinct by the end of the 18^th century.

Habitat:

Nothing is known but it is likely to have been a forest species.

Causes:

Hunting and, to a lesser extent, habitat loss are likely to have caused its extinction.

Distribution:

Amazona martinicana was described from Martinique (to France) by Labat in 1742, and by Buffon in 1779, and named by Clark based on these descriptions. Labat wrote that "the parrot is too common a bird for me to stop to give a description of it" (Clark 1905), and so the species must have declined very rapidly to extinction in the latter half of the 18^th century.

References:

IUCN Redbook Data