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.
Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) [XC260386]
by Peter Boesman from Sucumb\u00edos: 'La Selva Jungle Lodge', n bank R\u00edo Napo, Ecuador (call, calls)
Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) [XC411088]
by Juan Pablo L\u00f3pez-O. from Carara NP Loop trail, 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.