macaw

A colorful, long-tailed parrot with a proportionally large, powerful beak. There are 19 species in various colors, including combinations of red, green, yellow and blue.

Most macaw species have white or white-striped-with-black facial patches which are as unique as fingerprints, though some such as the hyacinth macaw have sparse color highlights instead.

When tagging macaws some confusion may exist between red-and-green macaw and scarlet macaw as they are both large, red macaws with blue wing tips. The way to tell them apart is that the scarlet macaw has a bright yellow area in the middle of the wings while the red-and-green macaw as the name suggests has green and blue wing tips.

Examples

Blue-and-yellow macaw

Hyacinth macaw

Red-and-green macaw

Scarlet macaw

See also

• Tag Group:Birds

External links

• Wikipedia: Macaw
• Wikipedia: List of macaws

This tag implicates parrot (learn more).

The following tags implicate this tag: blue-and-yellow_macaw, hyacinth_macaw, red-and-green_macaw, and scarlet_macaw (learn more).