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The scarlet macaw (''Ara macao'') is a large, red, yellow and blue South American parrot, a member of a large group of Neotropical parrots called macaws. It is native to humid evergreen forests of tropical South America. Range extends from extreme south-eastern Mexico to Amazonian Peru,Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela and Brazil in lowlands up to (at least formerly) up to . It has suffered from local extinction through habitat destruction and capture for the parrot trade, but locally it remains fairly common. Formerly it ranged north to southern Tamaulipas. It can still be found on the island of Coiba. It is the national bird of Honduras. == Taxonomy and naming == The scarlet macaw (''Ara macao'' Linnaeus 1758) is a member of the genus ''Ara'' (Lacepede, 1799), one of 6 genera of Central and South American macaws. Carolus Linnaeus described and named the scarlet macaw in his Systemae Naturae in 1758. Protonym: ''Psittacus macao''. Both subspecies can be recognized by size and color detail in the feathers on its wings.: * ''A. macao macao'' South American scarlet macaw, the nominate subspecies. In the wings the medium and secondary coverts have green tip. * ''A. macao cyanoptera'' (Wiedenfeld 1995) North Central American scarlet macaw The Central American scarlet macaw is larger and has blue on its wings instead of green. 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「Scarlet macaw」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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