IUCN/CITES Status: Critically Endangered / Appendix I
Population: About 2400 individuals, decreasing.
Threats: This species is seriously threatened by habitat loss and degradation driven primarily by the expansion of agriculture, and capture for local and international wild bird trade.
Range: A.a. auropalliata: Pacific slope from Oaxaca, Mexico to NW Costa Rica
A.a. parvipes: Mosquitia of Honduras and NE Nicaragua
A.a. caribaea: Bay Islands, Honduras
Natural history: The Yellow-naped Amazon favours deciduous forest, pine-oak woodland, gallery forest along waterways, arid to semi-arid savanna woodland, and dry scrubland with remnant woodlots or scattered trees. Birds are found in pairs or flocks with larger gatherings at communal roosts and feed areas. It feeds on seeds, figs and ripening Terminalia fruits. Bay Island birds feed on pine cones.