Length: 90 to 95 cm.
Weight: 1050 to 1708 g.
Coloration: Red coloration, different from the scarlet macaw for having green wing feathers in place of the yellow ones and for the narrow row of red feathers on the white facial skin.
Status
This species is not in danger of extinction (CITES II), but is highly commercialized and its feathers are collected by indigenous peoples. This species is also being studied by the Hyacinth Macaw Project team. See some of the research results in Publications.
Source: IUCN
Geographical Distribution
It occurs in Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Paraguay. In Brazil, it occurs from the Amazon to western Piauí, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso do Sul, and São Paulo. Like the blue-and-yellow, or caninde macaw, it also lives in the city of Campo Grande. It is now possible to see expanding and migrating bands of Scarlet macaws along the borders of the states of Mato Grosso do Sul, São Paulo, and Paraná, where they had been considered to be extinct.
Habitat
Woodlands along riverbanks in tropical forests, mountain ranges, and copses in the Pantanal, possibly sharing or alternating some nests with hyacinth macaws.
Food
Fruits and seeds in general.
Distribution map
Source: IUCN
Taxonomy
Class: Birds
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Genre: Ara
Scientific name: Ara chloropterus.
Popular name: Scarlet macaw, great scarlet macaw
