Green-winged Macaw

Family: Psittacidae
Scientific name: Ara chloroptera

Description:
Green-winged Macaws are a full sized macaw that are very colorful. The head, shoulders, and breast are a deep red. The wings next to the body are greenish turning bluer on the outside edge of the wing.

Care and feeding:
A roomy cage is required unless the bird is to be let out for extended periods. Many birds can spend most of their time on a play pen or parrot perch. They eat a variety of seeds, nuts, fruits, and commercial pellets, as well as the same nutritional foods humans eat.

Distribution:
The Green-winged Macaw's natural habitat runs from eastern Panama in Central America south across northern South America, east of the Andes, to Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay.

Size - Weight:
A full sized macaw, they can get over 2 lbs. Lengths up to 90 cm (35.5 inches).

Social Behaviors:
They are a typical macaw. Can be cranky at times and may be a one person bird or only like men or women, etc.

Breeding/Reproduction:
The usual clutch consists of two or three eggs which incubate for about 28 days. The babies will fledge after about 3 months in the nest. Feed the parents plenty of greenstuffs, corn-on-the-cob, carrots, and fruit laced with food supplement while they are rearing the youngsters.

Sexual differences: No visible differences.