Scarlet Macaw
Ara macao
Aves
APPENDIX I
Stats
- Lifespan
- 30-50 yrs
- Size
- Large
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Flock
- Biome
- Tropical rainforest
- Range
- Central and South America
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Speed
- Status
- Appendix I
About
Large neotropical parrots with brilliant red plumage and yellow-and-blue wings; bonded pairs mate for life and can live over fifty years in the wild.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA few round white eggs are incubated deep in a tree cavity, the female rarely leaving until they hatch.
- 2.hatchlingA featherless hatchling is fed regurgitated food by both parents inside a tree cavity.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges with duller plumage than the adults, learning to crack seeds and to call.
- 4.adultFully grown with bright adult plumage.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- Family
- Psittacidae
- Genus
- Ara
- Species
- Ara macao