Specialists from the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance have determined where the endangered Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha species, known as the fat-billed ara, whose primary nesting habitat is pine forests in northwestern Mexico, go to winter. According to a publication in Global Ecology and Conservation, these animals make the migration to the southern part of the Western Sierra Madre range every October. There, according to the researchers, these birds spend a little less than half a year.
The researchers pointed out that only 8.5% of the territories where the thick-billed ara is overwintering are currently protected. As noted by experts, the rest of this territory is threatened by logging for timber harvesting and agricultural development. In total, according to scientists, only 20% of the entire habitat of this endangered species is protected.
