Red-and-green Macaw

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When to see the Red-and-green Macaw

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Red-and-green Macaw

The map shades 16 countries with regular records, and 7 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Puerto Rico, United States, Germany, Taiwan, Spain, Australia, Curaçao.

About the Red-and-green Macaw

The red-and-green macaw, also known as the green-winged macaw, is a large, mostly-red macaw of the genus Ara. It is popular in aviculture, and is the second most commonly kept macaw species after the blue-and-yellow macaw. However, they are not as common in captivity as the blue-and-yellow, and are much more expensive; prices are often double that of the blue-and-gold.

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Easily confused with

Military MacawAra militarisMilitary macaws measure from 70 to 85 centimeters (28 to 33 inches) long on-average, with a 99–110 cm (39–43 in) wingspan. Great Green MacawAra ambiguusGreat green macaws are the largest parrots in their natural range, the second heaviest macaw species (although they are relatively shorter tailed than other large macaws such as the red-and-green macaw and are thus somewhat shorter), and the third heaviest parrot species in the world. Red-fronted MacawAra rubrogenysThe red-fronted macaw is 55–60 cm (21.5–23.5 in) long.

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