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The Dominican green-and-yellow macaw or Atwood's macaw (''Ara atwoodi''), also called the Dominican macaw, is an extinct macaw that may have lived on the island of Dominica. It is only known through the writings of zoologist Thomas Atwood in 1791. Atwood wrote the following in his book "The History of the Island of Dominica": No archeological remains are known of this bird, and it is thus widely considered an extinct hypothetically existent parrot. Atwood described a bird which was commonly captured for food and pets.〔 Austin Hobart Clark, scientifically describing the parrot, initially included these macaws in ''Ara guadeloupensis''. On discovering Atwood's writings, however, Clark listed them separately, considering them distinct〔BirdLife International 2004. Ara atwoodi. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <()>. Accessed: 17 July 2007.〕 The Dominican macaw probably became extinct in the late 18th or early 19th century.〔ZipCode Zoo: Ara atwoodi. 2007. BayScience Foundatation. URL: (http://zipcodezoo.com ). Accessed: 17 July 2007〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dominican green-and-yellow macaw」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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