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 LC    Scarlet Macaw* Id (Atlas):
    Ara macao

Description (10)
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Family
Psittacidae (Parrots)

Size
80 - 96 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 900 m.

Range (Guide)
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.

Population
Estimated population is 20,000 - 49,999 (2020) and decreasing.

Status LC
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Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (39)...)

 
Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) [XC374502]
     by Orlando Jarqu\u00edn G. from Parque Nacional Carara, Puntarenas, Costa Rica (call)

 
Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) [XC371399]
     by Roland Rumm from near finca trancas entrance, Costa Rica (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.



References
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Files:
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