Names: Great Green Macaw, Buffon's Macaw, Great Military Macaw Scientific name: Ara ambiguus Conservation status: Endangered Info: The Great Green Macaw is a Central and South American parrot found in Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. This species live in the canopy of wet tropical forests and is highly dependent on the almendro tree. These macaws are the largest parrots in their natural range, the second heaviest macaw species, and the third heaviest parrot species in the world. This species averages 85–90 cm in length and 1.3 kg in weight. They are mainly green and have a reddish forehead and pale blue lower back, rump and upper tail feathers. The tail is brownish red tipped with very pale blue. The bare facial skin is patterned with lines of small dark feathers, which are reddish in older and female parrots. The Great Green Macaw appears superficially similar to, and may easily be confused, with the Military Macaw where their ranges overlap. The macaw is known to feed on 37 different species of trees, including the mountain almendro, Sacoglottis trichogyna, Vochysia ferruginea and coco, which compose most of its diet. The macaw also eats fruit.
