Ara tricolor

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Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	PSITTACIFORMES	PSITTACIDAE

Scientific Name:

Ara tricolor

Species Authority:

Bechstein, 1811

Common Name/s:

English

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Cuban Macaw

Taxonomic Notes:

Ara cubensis and A. tricolor (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into A. tricolor following AOU (1998).

Red List Category & Criteria:

Extinct ver 3.1

Year Published:

2012

Assessor/s:

BirdLife International

Reviewer/s:

Butchart, S. & Symes, A.

Contributor/s:

Justification:
This species was known from Cuba, but hunting drove the population Extinct. The last reports of the species date from 1885.

History:

Range Description:	Ara tricolor was endemic to mainland Cuba, and probably also the Isle of Pines (Walters 1995, Olson and Suárez 2008). There is no evidence for the historical existence of the species, or any other macaw, on Hispaniola (Olson 2005), where it has been erroneously suggested to occur (Wetherbee 1985). The last specimen was collected in 1864 (Bangs and Zappey 1905), with the last reports in 1885 (Lack 1976). At least 19 specimens (Moreno 1992) and three fossils (Olson and Suárez 2008) of the species exist.
Countries:	Regionally extinct: Cuba; Dominican Republic; Haiti
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Habitat and Ecology:	It inhabited forest, requiring trees with large holes for nesting purposes. It probably fed mainly on hard palm seeds (Olson and Suárez 2008).
Systems:	Terrestrial

Major Threat(s):	Its extinction was caused by hunting for food and felling of nesting trees to capture young birds for pets (Forshaw and Cooper 1989).

Major Threat(s):

Its extinction was caused by hunting for food and felling of nesting trees to capture young birds for pets (Forshaw and Cooper 1989).

Citation:	BirdLife International 2012. Ara tricolor. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 June 2013.
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