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Justification of Red List category
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.

Population justification
No extant population remains.

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.

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

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

Text account compilers
Hermes, C.

Contributors
Brooks, T., Khwaja, N. & Mahood, S.

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Martinique Amazon Amazona martinicana. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/martinique-amazon-amazona-martinicana on 27/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 27/12/2024.