FOREIGN BIRDS ON MY CANVAS .. SCARLET MACAW

FOREIGN BIRDS ON MY CANVAS # 25/557.. SCARLET MACAW... ACRYLIC ON CANVAS[First time]... 15INCH*26INCH, WITHOUT FRAME... 2015 ... Courtesy: Pinterest...The scarlet macaw (Ara macao) is a large, red, yellow and blue South American parrot, a member of a large group of Neotropical parrots called macaws. It is native to humid evergreen forests of tropical South America. Range extends from extreme south-eastern Mexico to Amazonian Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela and Brazil in lowlands up to 500 m (1,640 ft) (at least formerly) up to 1,000 m (3,281 ft). It has suffered from local extinction through habitat destruction and capture for the parrot trade, but locally it remains fairly common. Formerly it ranged north to southern Tamaulipas. It can still be found on the island of Coiba. It is the national bird of Honduras.
It is about 81 centimetres (32 in) long, of which more than half is the pointed, graduated tail typical of all macaws, though the scarlet macaw has a larger percentage of tail than the other large macaws. The average weight is about 1 kilogram (2.2 lb). The plumage is mostly scarlet, but the rump and tail-covert feathers are light blue, the greater upper wing coverts are yellow, the upper sides of the flight feathers of the wings are dark blue as are the ends of the tail feathers, and the undersides of the wing and tail flight feathers are dark red with metallic gold iridescence. Some individuals may have green in the wings.
Scarlet macaws eat mostly fruits, nuts and seeds, including large, hard seeds.
It is listed on CITES Appendix 1 due to predation for the pet and cage bird trade. Both subspecies[A. macao macao South American scarlet macaw, the nominate subspecies. In the wings the medium and secondary coverts have green tip.
A. macao cyanoptera (Wiedenfeld 1995) North Central American scarlet macaw] are listed by USFWS as endangered.[INFO:WIKIPEDIA]