This species lives in riparian forest and areas with scattered trees, as well as evergreen forest in Belize and mangroves in Guatemala. A notable ecoregion of occurrence is the Belizean pine forests.[16] It occurs singly or in pairs, in small groups, and occasionally in big flocks. The range formerly included both coastal slopes of Mexico from the Tres Marías Islands and Jalisco to Oaxaca and from Nuevo León to northern Chiapas and southwestern Tabasco, as well as a disjunct area including most of Belize, and another comprising a small part of northeastern Guatemala and northwestern Honduras.[2] However, their numbers have been reduced drastically—by 90 percent, to 7,000, from the mid 1970s to 1994,[17] and by 68 percent from 1994 to 2004[1]—because of capture for the pet trade and habitat destruction. Introduced populations can be found in Stuttgart, Germany where a population of over 50 individuals resides .[18] Smaller introduced populations are to found at Imperial Beach, Santa Ana, Loma Linda, California and Pasadena, California; All in Southern California.
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