This page contains general information about the Ara Ararauna - Blue And Gold Macaw. Information includes: Origin, Habitat, Diet, Size, Compatibility, Sexing, Pet Characteristics, and Color.
Widely distributed in South America: Brazil, except the most South and East; North Paraguay; East Bolivia; East Peru; East Columbia and in the North to Panama; South Venezuela; Trinidad; Guyana; Surinam and French Guyana.
Riverside forests to open savannah lands.
Length: 90 cm.
Among others, palmfruits of Inaja (Maximiliana regia) and Tucuma (Astrocaryum spec.).
Plumage: Upperparts blue, breast and body bright yellow. Forehead green, turning blue over the crown to the neck. White, naked face striped with black rows of feathers. White, naked cheeks. Throat black with a greenish border where it reaches the yellow breast. The yellow of the breast extends round the black throat up to the ears. Underparts of wings olive-yellow.
Bill Black.
Legs dark grey.
Iris ivory.
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