Military Macaw

Description:

A popular cage bird, the military macaw's wild population is rapidly diminishing as more and more birds are being captured for the pet trade. Military macaws have bright green plumage, with vibrant red head feathers and a black beak. Blue and red tail feathers and bright blue flight feathers add to this bird's colourful appearance, and make it easy to understand why it is such a popular pet.

Habitat:

It inhabits humid lowland forest and adjacent cleared areas, wooded foothills and canyons. In Mexico, it is found in arid and semi-arid woodland, and pine-oak, humid lowland and riparian forest, moving seasonally to dense thorn-forest,, although in Puno, Peru it was found to be more abundant in a mosaic of shade coffee plantations and degraded remnant forest patches than in neighbouring pristine Yungas forest. It occurs from sea-level to 3,100 m, but the core range is 500-1,500 m. Nests and large communal roosts are sited on cliff-faces or in large trees