Know About Scarlet Macaw – ara macaw
Scarlet Macaw – ara macaw
Length: 85cm/34 inches 
Weight: 900-1100 grams
Life span: 50-60 years
Incubation: 25-26 days
Age at weaning: 16 weeks
Age at maturity: 2.5-3 years
Natural habitat: South and Central America including Guyana, Columbia, Bolivia, Peru and Honduras
Scarlet Macaws can generally been seen in lowland tropical forests and the savannah. They are normally in pairs, family parties or small flocks. Like all macaws they have a strong pair bond. They fly daily from their roosting site directly to their chosen feeding ground.They feed on seeds, fruit, nuts, berries and leaf buds they have even been known to eat flowers and nectar. They nest in hollows, in the tallest trees and normally have a clutch of 3-5 eggs.
The plumage of the Scarlet Macaw is mostly bright red. The feathers of their lower mantle are red tipped with yellow and their scapulars are yellow with green tips. Their back and upper tail coverts are blue. Their flight feathers are blue above, olive green below and the rest of the wing red. The uppertail is red with blue tips the under tail is red. Their lores and cheeks are bare white skin which flushes when the bird is excited, and their eyes have yellow iris’s. Their upper beak is horn coloured changing to black at the tip, their lower beak is black and their legs are charcoal colour. A immature bird has a shorter tail and brown iris’s.