Scarlet Macaw

The scarlet macaw is a sizable red, yellow, and blue Neotropical parrot that is a part of the macaw family. It is found in Central and South America. It is indigenous to the Neotropical wet evergreen woodlands. Its range includes lowlands between 500 meters and 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) above sea level in south-eastern Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, and Brazil, as well as Trinidad in the Caribbean and Coiba in the Pacific. Its former range extended from northern Mexico to southern Tamaulipas. It has experienced local extinction in some places due to habitat loss or capture for the pet parrot trade, but it is still reasonably widespread in other places. It is Honduras' national bird.

Due to its eye-catching plumage, the scarlet macaw, like its relative the blue-and-yellow macaw, is a well-liked bird in aviculture. The majority of the feathers are scarlet, but there are other colors present as well, including light blue on the rump and tail coverts, yellow on the greater upper wing coverts, dark blue on the upper sides of the flight feathers of the wings as well as the ends of the tail feathers, and dark red with metallic gold iridescence on the undersides of the wing and tail flight feathers. The wings of certain individuals may be green.

Although vocal communication is very diverse and captive macaws are considered to be skilled mimics of human speech, scarlet macaws primarily communicate by loud honking.