Cuban macaw
The Cuban macaw or Cuban red macaw (Ara tricolor) was an extinct species of macaw in the genus Ara.
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| Watercolour painting by Jacques Barraband, ca. 1800 | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | Psittaciformes |
| Family: | Psittacidae |
| Genus: | Ara |
| Species: | †A. tricolor
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| Binomial name | |
| Ara tricolor (Bechstein, 1811)
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| Former distribution in Cuba, including Isla de la Juventud[1] | |
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Cuban Macaw Media
Study skin in Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, one of 19 specimens in existence
Painting of a specimen in Liverpool Museum (which one writer found to differ enough from other specimens to perhaps be a different species), by John Gerrard Keulemans, 1907
Painting of either a Cuban macaw imported to Jamaica, or the hypothetical extinct Jamaican red macaw, by L. J. Robins, 1765
Painting by Philip Reinagle showing a Cuban macaw among other birds
Turnaround video of specimen RMNH.110095 at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden
Fruits of the chinaberry tree
Zapata Swamp, 2009; the Cuban macaw lived in the area
1765 illustration by François-Nicolas Martinet
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 BirdLife International (2012). "Ara tricolor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.