Description: Mostly red bird with white skin on the face and blue and yellow feathers on the wings and tail; 33-35 inches long

Habitat: Rainforests, gallery woodland in savannas

Diet: Seeds, flowers, fruits

Reproduction: Lays 1-4 eggs; nests in tree cavities

Did you know...

Like all parrots, Scarlet Macaws have a curved beak, with the longer downward-curved upper mandible fitting over the shorter lower upward-curved mandible. This shape allows the birds to easliy crack open hard seeds.

While the main part of a Scarlet Macaw's diet is made up of fruit, they also sometimes consume clay. Scarlet Macaws, along with many other parrots, regulary visit clay deposits along riverbanks to eat chunks of the mineral-rich clay. This is believed to help rid the birds' bodies of the toxins found in some of the berries and seeds they eat.