 The IUCN Redlist 3.1, which uses the Birdlife International checklist, lumps the common and widespread grey-headed parrot with Cape parrots and brown-necked parrots, each of which are more narrowly distributed and more threatened, leading to an assessment of least concern.This contrasts with alternative assessments of the South African endemic "P. robustus", as endangered and possible threatened status of the brown-headed parrot of West Africa.There are only about 400 in the wild, and the Cape Parrot Project is trying to save them.