Endangered birds have a new habitat in Ecuador

Sep 2, 2023 |
By Susana Madera

Two endangered birds, the golden-cheeked parakeet and the yellow-eared parrot, will soon have a new habitat in Ecuador’s Montaña de Luz, where the community has planted more than 300 wax palms, home to the tiny birds.

Due to its slow growth, the wax palm requires more than 80 years to begin its reproductive cycle and can exceed 200 years of age. Currently the Red Book of endemic plants of Ecuador considers it to be a vulnerable species.

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Due to its slow growth, Ecuador’s wax palm requires more than 80 years to begin its reproductive cycle and can exceed 200 years of age.


It can be found in mature and secondary forests, and according to the Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition, it provides food for toucans, guans, and parrots, among other birds, and animals such as armadillos, bears, deer, peccaries, rodents, and primates.

And it is also the home of the golden-cheeked parakeet (leptosittaca branickii), an endagered bird according to the red list of birds of Ecuador 2022, and the yellow-eared parrot (ognorhynchus icterotis), which the International Union for Conservation of Nature places is in the vulnerable category and also appeared in the red list of birds of Ecuador 2019 in the critically endangered category.

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golden-cheeked parakeet



yellow-eared parrot