The scarlet macaw (Ara macao), with its iconic red, blue and yellow plumes, is the national bird of Honduras. It inhabits forests from northern Central America to the southern Amazon, but the ...

WASHINGTON (CN) – Four species of Central and South American macaws warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The hyacinth, military, great ...

Newly shared images show a cohort of 26 young scarlet macaws ... The Mesoamerican subspecies (A. m. cyanoptera), distributed across the Maya Forest and Honduras-Nicaragua border, ...

The birds in question include the great green macaw (Ara ambiguous), which lives in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.According to the Service, there are likely only ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday that it’s sticking with the current Endangered Species Act status of the scarlet macaw, a foreign bird with a colorful plumage and a complicated history.

But now a new study has found that Indigenous people were breeding scarlet macaws, Ara macao, in captivity even earlier than we first realized — as early as the 1100s.

The scarlet macaw population in Central America’s largest wilderness area had dwindled drastically. The Indigenous Miskito people stepped in to help save them. A scarlet macaw perches on a tree ...

Mr O'Grady's birds include one of three sub-species of scarlet macaw from Nicaragua. He also has blue and gold macaws and green-winged macaws. Twelve of the 17 species of the bird are known to be ...

Scarlet macaws raised in a wildlife rescue center are released from the top of a hill over-looking the Guatemalan jungle. The hope is that they’ll find. Skip to main content Skip to footer site map.

Scarlet macaws, which live up to 50 years in the wild, are monogamous birds that nest in large cavities of the tallest and oldest trees. As long as these nests remain available and undisturbed, ...