Burung paruh bengkok (Parrots)
Scarlet Macaw
Ara macao
- tidak umum
- 56 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Blazing red, yellow, and blue across the sky. Your message arrives like a firework.
- Populasi
- 50,000–499,999 mature individuals (population trend decreasing, ~9% tree-cover loss across range over three generations)
- Habitat
- Humid lowland ("terra firme") tropical rainforest, deciduous forest, riverine/gallery forest, savanna/open woodland, and mangroves, mostly 0–1,000 m elevation; forest dependency rated high
- Fakta menarik
- Over half the Scarlet Macaw's roughly 84-89 cm body length is its long, pointed, graduated tail.
- Sebaran
- Southeastern Mexico through Central America to Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, and the Amazon basin of Brazil; occurs in 19 countries/territories with an extent of occurrence of ~10.2 million km². Note: the northern subspecies A. m. cyanopterus is itself Endangered with only ~2,000–3,000 wild individuals remaining, though this does not change the species-level LC status.
- Makanan
- Primarily fruit, nuts, and seeds, supplemented with flowers and nectar; practices geophagy (eating riverbank/mineral-lick clay) which may aid digestion and help neutralize toxins in unripe fruit
- Ukuran
- 0,89 m
- Masa hidup
- 40 tahun
