Dominica's Imperial Parrot (Amazona imperialis) declined from Endangered to Critically Endangered after Hurricane Maria in 2017, with fewer than 50 mature individuals estimated to remain in the wild.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by BirdLife International's official Red List factsheet, peer-reviewed Oryx journal article, Wikipedia, and Loro Parque Fundación conservation NGO, all consistently corroborating the uplisting to Critically Endangered, the causal link to Hurricane Maria, and the sub-50 mature individual estimate. [cascade flags: wikipedia_dropped_other_sources_exist | tier=unverified indep_score=0.3 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable] [rescored 2026-09-15: curated origin-host map (PR #65); unclassified hosts no longer scored as aggregators]
Sources
- Species recoveries bring hope amidst the biodiversity crisis (seed:environment_and_wildlife)
- http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/Imperial-Amazon (corroboration)
- https://www.loroparque-fundacion.org/en/portfolio/amazona-imperialis-imperial-parrot/ (corroboration)
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/first-observations-of-the-impacts-of-hurricane-maria-on-the-endemic-imperial-amazon/DE02E7C2FF89CC9D913C0CCC378EF055 (corroboration)