The Scarlet Macaw is a beautiful and colorful bird just like parrot. It is mainly found in the Mexico and southern Brazil. It is about 90 centimeters in length with bright red with blue and yellow wings, blue and red tail shows the unique feature of Scarlet Macaw. It has a white face with big, sickle-shaped beaks. Its feet are strong and can able to grasp the limbs of a tree very firmly. If we found the adult Macaw then we can see the tail is more than two feet long.Scarlet Macaws are famous for its ability in mimicking and imitating sounds made by the human voice as well as perform tricks. Both the male and females look alike. Abundant fruits and nuts are favorite food of it in the tropical forests which is its habitat. It cracks open the nuts by using its extremely powerful beak and uses its blunt tongue to extract the nut meat.To make a piece of fruit beak are uses to cut out. Even it eats insects and worms. Macaw do not have feathers on its face. It usually travels in a large flock. It is easily live up to 30 years but if they are captive that number can grow up to 75 years. It builds its nest in holes in trees or in between rocks.
Their eyes can let you know if they are old or young, if their eyes is black then they are young and if they have yellow eyes they are older. This bird has become endangered due to the its colorful feathers in fashion in earlier years. Demand has not diminished until now as the young are taken from their nests for pets by poachers. So due to these reason Scarlet Macaw's population is diminishing. Law has been made in most of the countries where the Scarlet Macaw can found.
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