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Parrots & songbirds in the illegal wildlife trade

WildTrace has recorded 127 cases involving parrots & songbirds from public reports between 2024-01-15 and 2026-09-23, in 7 countries. 37 of them rest on an official or validated source.

CITES appendix II. Taxa covered: Psittacula spp., Gracula religiosa, Psittacus erithacus, Ara spp., Amazona spp., Passeriformes. Counts show where this trade is reported, not where it happens: reporting is uneven between countries and languages, and cases whose reports name no place are counted but cannot be mapped.

Where parrots & songbirds cases are reported

Recent cases

Where seized parrots & songbirds came from, and where it was seized

680 shipments of parrots & songbirds seized or confiscated were reported to CITES since 2015 (CITES Trade Database, source code I). Counts are shipment records, not quantities, and some countries report far more completely than others.

Taken from

  • Peru 113
  • Mexico 81
  • United States 65
  • Brazil 49
  • Colombia 42
  • Guatemala 28
  • Costa Rica 14
  • Canada 12

Seized in

  • United States 554
  • Germany 26
  • Trinidad and Tobago 15
  • Canada 15
  • British Virgin Islands 6
  • Switzerland 6
  • Panama 5
  • Taiwan 4

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