On a dead Wax Palm, the food and nesting tree of the Yellow-eared Parrot. These trees die when the forest is cut around them. One theory is the ground becomes saturated and the roots rot, or perhaps the soil ecology changes and insects or bacteria kill the tree. The tree and the parrot are endangered, although the parrot's numbers have rebounded.
A small parrot found very locally in noisy groups in the Andes at around 2500m. Usually found around wax palms, which are used for food and nesting. Now very rare in Ecuador, so perhaps now a Colombian {endemic} species.
Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN
Antarctica
AO
Atlantic Ocean
AU
Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL
Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO
Indian Ocean
LA
Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA
Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA
North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO
Northern oceans
OR
Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
