Illegal wildlife trade remains highly active in the Neotropics, as indicated bythe thousands of parrots annually sold in illicit city markets. However, little isknown about where parrots are poached, whether certain parrot species areselected among those available in the wild, their trade routes, and potentialconservation impacts. We conducted a large-scale survey in Peru and southernEcuador to simultaneously estimate the relative abundance of parrots in thewild and as household pets in rural areas, determine their origin (locally poa-ched or bought at city markets), and measured the shortest distances to theirnative ranges and markets through the existing grid of roads. Household-poached native parrots were found in 96% of the rural localities surveyed. Mostpets were locally poached, with only 14% of them bought at markets. Parrotpoaching was highly selective, with preferred species (ma...