Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador (E), French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.
Introduced to Puerto Rico.
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is 20,000 - 49,999 (2020) and decreasing.
Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) [XC708705]
by Fernando Igor de Godoy from Portel, state of Par\u00e1., Brazil (alarm call)
Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) [XC436484]
by Andres Angulo from Parque Arqueol\u00f3gico Ruinas de Cop\u00e1n, Cop\u00e1n Ruinas, Cop\u00e1n, Honduras (call)
Subspecies
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
cyanopterus Wiedenfeld, 1995 - South-eastern Mexico to Nicaragua.
macao (Linnaeus, 1758) - Costa Rica, Panama and northern and eastern Colombia (recent record from Nariño), east through Venezuela and the Guianas to central Brazil, and south to eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru and north-eastern Bolivia.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet