Parrots (Psittacidae) - HBW 4
Great Green Macaw (Ara ambigua)
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
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A close-up of an adult Costa Rica (ssp ambigua)
Max Roth 31 March 2000 4 years ago 10 sec 4.3 -
A bird feeding in a tree Costa Rica (ssp ambigua)
Max Roth 31 March 2000 4 years ago 31 sec 4.1 -
Two birds showing allopreening. Vogelpark Walsrode, Niedersachsen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Josep del Hoyo 12 August 2006 44 weeks ago 33 sec 3
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Two birds showing allopreening. Vogelpark Walsrode, Niedersachsen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Josep del Hoyo 12 August 2006 44 weeks ago 3.5
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Calls given by a pair in flight. La Selva Biological Station, Puerto Viejo, Sarapiquí, Heredia Province, Costa Rica
(ssp ambigua)
Scott Olmstead 13 February 2010 2 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 4
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