Critically Endangered
Red-fronted Macaw
Ara rubrogenys
The red-fronted macaw is a parrot endemic to a small semi-desert mountainous area of Bolivia.
Appearance
It is mostly green, and has a red forehead, a red patch over the ears and bright red to orange edged under wing coverts. It has an area of pinkish skin around the eyes extending to the beak. It has red at the bend of wings and blue primary wing feathers.
The red-fronted macaw is 55–60 cm (21.5–23.5 in) long.
Range and habitat
The red-fronted macaw is native to a small mountainous area of south-central Bolivia situated about 200 km west of Santa Cruz, in the department of the same name, where the climate is medium altitude semi-desert. It is unusual in that it is the only macaw to inhabit such a climatic zone. Most macaws nest in holes in large trees, however here there are no very large trees in its range so it nests in vertical fissures in cliff faces.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
It is a critically endangered species. It has been successfully bred in captivity, and is available, if not common, as a pet.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Red-fronted Macaw is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Red-fronted Macaw, Wikidata item Q838951. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
