green-winged macaw, red-and-green macaw (Ara chloropterus) Zooparque - Itatiba/SP
Date 21 February 2013, 10:22
Source Arara Vermelha
Author Joao Carlos Medau http://www.flickr.com/people/26657772@N02 from Campinas, Brazil
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arara_Vermelha_(8496805428).jpg
The green-winged macaw or red-and-green macaw (Ara chloropterus) is a large, mostly-red macaw. Ara chloropterus is the largest of the Ara genus, widespread in the forests and woodlands of northern and central South America.
Order: Psittaciformes
Superfamily: Psittacoidea
Family: Psittacidae
Subfamily: Arinae
Tribe: Arini
Genus: Ara
Species: Ara chloropterus (Gray, 1859)
Synonyms: Ara chloroptera