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) [XC609147]
by Jelle Scharringa from Provincia de Puntarenas, Costa Rica (call)
Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) [XC537393]
by Caio Brito from Provincia de Puntarenas, 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.