![]() ![]() ![]() Both male and female Scarlet Macaws are alike. Their upper mandible is mostly pale in colour and the lower is black. The Scarlet Macaws have bare white skin around the eye and from there to the bill. Their 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. ![]() Their plumage is mostly scarlet, but the rump and tail-covert feathers are light blue. Their average weight is about one kilogram (2 to 2.5 pounds). The Scarlet Macaw is about 81 to 96 centimetres (32 to 36 inches) long, of which more than half is the pointed, graduated tail typical of macaws. The Scarlet Macaws usual habitats are the emergent layers and canopy layers of the rainforest. The Scarlet Macaw resides in lowlands up to 500 metres (formerly up to 1000 metres). The Scarlet Macaw is native to humid evergreen forests in the American tropics, from Central America and South America, including eastern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Colombia, Ecuador, Amazonian Peru and Brazil. The Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) is a large, very colourful parrot that lives in the tropical humid environments of the Amazon Rainforest.
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