Native to the dry forest region of the Pacific slope of Ecuador (north to Esmeraldas) and northwestern Peru (south to southern Lambayeque), where it occurs in deciduous forest, scrub, and mixed agricultural areas.<\/p>

Native populations declined significantly in the 1980s due to capture for the pet trade, which eventually resulted in several introduced urban populations.\u00a0 Those that appear to be established are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego, California, southeastern Florida, Hawaii (Honolulu and the Kona coast), north-coastal Puerto Rico, Lima, Peru, and Valencia, Spain. \u00a0The San Francisco population is the largest, with several hundred birds, and has been afforded legal protection\u2014unusual for an exotic species.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t