Parrots (Psittacidae)
Great Green Macaw (Ara ambigua) - HBW 4, p. 421
French: Ara de Buffon
German: Bechsteinara
Spanish: Guacamayo Ambiguo
Other common names: Buffon's Macaw
Taxonomy: Psittacus ambiguus Bechstein, 1811, north-western Colombia.
Sometimes treated as conspecific with A. militaris, but in spite of evidence of interbreeding the characters of the two forms are consistently different over their respective ranges. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- ambigua (Bechstein, 1811) - E Honduras and Nicaragua through Costa Rica and Panama to NW Colombia.
- guayaquilensis Chapman, 1925 - W Ecuador.
- Endangered Enlarge map
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A close-up of an adult Locality Costa Rica (ssp ambigua)
Max Roth 31 March 2000 7 years ago 10 sec 4.2 -
A bird feeding in a tree Locality Costa Rica (ssp ambigua)
Max Roth 31 March 2000 7 years ago 31 sec 4.1 -
A bird plucking and eating Dipteryx panamensis fruits. Locality La Selva Biological Station, Puerto Viejo, Sarapiquí, Heredia Province, Costa Rica (ssp ambiguus)
Richard Garrigues 4 October 2012 36 weeks ago 36 sec 3.8 -
Two birds showing allopreening. Locality Vogelpark Walsrode, Walsrode, Lower Saxony, Germany
Josep del Hoyo 12 August 2006 4 years ago 33 sec 3.5 -
A bird eating a Dipteryx panamensis fruit. Locality La Selva Biological Station, Puerto Viejo, Sarapiquí, Heredia Province, Costa Rica (ssp ambiguus)
Richard Garrigues 4 October 2012 36 weeks ago 42 sec 3.3
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Great Green Macaw (Ara ambigua)
Locality Bijagua, Río San Juan Department, Nicaragua
Manfred Bienert 20 April 2013 7 weeks ago 4 -
A couple of Great Green Macaws watching the bird-watcher.
Locality Bijagua, Río San Juan Department, Nicaragua
Manfred Bienert 18 April 2013 7 weeks ago 3.5 -
Two birds showing allopreening.
Locality Vogelpark Walsrode, Walsrode, Lower Saxony, Germany
Josep del Hoyo 12 August 2006 4 years ago 3.5 -
Great Green Macaw (Ara ambigua)
Locality Bijagua, Río San Juan Department, Nicaragua
Manfred Bienert 20 April 2013 7 weeks ago 3.2 -
Great Green Macaw (Ara ambigua)
Locality Bijagua, Río San Juan Department, Nicaragua
Manfred Bienert 20 April 2013 7 weeks ago 3.2 -
Nestling looking out of the nest cavity.
Locality Bijagua, Río San Juan Department, Nicaragua
Manfred Bienert 20 April 2013 7 weeks ago 3
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Calls given by a pair in flight. Locality La Selva Biological Station, Puerto Viejo, Sarapiquí, Heredia Province, Costa Rica
(ssp ambigua)
Scott Olmstead 13 February 2010 3 years ago 4
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