Scarlet macaw

Scarlet macaw
Scarlet macaw (Ara macao)
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Class:	Aves
Order:	Psittaciformes
Family:	Psittacidae
Subfamily:	Psittacinae
Binomial name
Ara macao Linnaeus, 1758
Range of the scarlet macaw

The scarlet macaw (Ara macao) is a type of parrot. It is native to humid evergreen forests of tropical South America.

Its range is from south-eastern Mexico to Amazonian Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela and Brazil in lowlands up to 500 m (1,640 ft) (at least formerly) up to 1,000 m (3,281 ft). It has suffered from local extinction through habitat destruction and capture for the parrot trade, but locally it remains fairly common. It is the national bird of Honduras.

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Scarlet macaw.

Wikispecies has information on: Scarlet macaw.

• Scarlet Macaw in-depth research article.
• Tambopata Macaw project Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine long term research project in south east Peru
• World Parrot Trust Archived 2015-06-29 at the Wayback Machine Parrot Encyclopedia — Species Profiles
• Scarlet macaw videos on the Internet Bird Collection
• Page of photographs of Scarlet and green-winged macaws at a clay lick from Parrots International Archived 2016-08-28 at the Wayback Machine
• Scarlet macaw photo on PBase
• Stamps Archived 2020-02-21 at the Wayback Machine (15 countries) with RangeMap
• Ara macao conservation and reintroduction in Costa Rica
• Scarlet macaw in illegal traffic in Nicaragua
• The Scarlet Macaw Genome Project

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