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White Capped Pionus Parrot

Yellow Naped Amazon

Yellow Shouldered Amazon

Every year, approximately 250,000 parrots are imported to the United States from Africa, Central and South America, and Australia to satisfy a demand for exotic birds as pets because they are intelligent, magnificently colored, and speak well. An estimated 25,000 wild parrots are smuggled in from Mexico (second-largest illegal border business with drug smuggling as first.) Many parrots die of suffocation, starvation, inhumane treatment while in transport. Largely, international trade and habitat destruction threatens many parrots groups.