"Great military macaw" redirects here. Not to be confused with Military macaw.
Great green macaw
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1]
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Psittaciformes
Family:
Psittacidae
Genus:
Ara
Species:
A. ambiguus
Binomial name
Ara ambiguus
(Bechstein, 1811)
Subspecies
Ara ambiguus ambiguus Ara ambiguus guayaquilensis
A. ambiguus distribution range
Synonyms
Psittacus ambiguus Bechstein, 1811
The great green macaw (Ara ambiguus), also known as Buffon's macaw or the great military macaw, is a critically endangered Central and South America parrot found in Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador.[3] Two allopatric subspecies are recognized; the nominate subspecies, Ara ambiguus ssp. ambiguus, occurs from Honduras to Colombia, while Ara ambiguus ssp. guayaquilensis appears to be endemic to remnants of dry forests on the southern Pacific coast of Ecuador.[4] The nominate subspecies lives in the canopy of wet tropical forests and in Costa Rica is usually associated with the almendro tree, Dipteryx oleifera.[5]
^BirdLife International (2020). "Ara ambiguus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22685553A172908289. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22685553A172908289.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
^"Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
^Forshaw, Joseph M.; Cooper, William T. (1981) [1973, 1978]. Parrots of the World (corrected second ed.). David & Charles, Newton Abbot, London. ISBN 0-7153-7698-5.
^Viteri Herrera, Carlos Fabián (2016). Modelamiento de nicho ecológico del Guacamayo Verde Mayor (ARA AMBIGUUS GUAYAQUILENSIS CHAPMAN, 1925): implicaciones para su conservación (Masters) (in Spanish). Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad de Guayaquil. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
^Chassot, Olivier; Monge Arias, Guisselle (1 March 2012). "CONNECTIVITY CONSERVATION OF THE GREAT GREEN MACAW'S LANDSCAPE IN COSTA RICA AND NICARAGUA (1994-2012)" (PDF). PARKS. 18 (1). doi:10.2305/IUCN.CH.2012.PARKS-18-1.OC.en (inactive 31 January 2024). Retrieved 18 August 2019.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link)
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