Biology:Red-headed macaw
| Red-headed macaw | |
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| Hypothetical illustration, John Gerrard Keulemans, 1907 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Psittaciformes |
| Family: | Psittacidae |
| Genus: | Ara |
| Species: | A. erythrocephala
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| Binomial name | |
| Ara erythrocephala Gosse, 1847
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| Location of Jamaica | |
The red-headed macaw or Jamaican green-and-yellow macaw (Ara erythrocephala) may have been a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae that lived in Jamaica, but its existence is hypothetical.
Description
Rothschild based it on a description which a Mr. Hill had sent to Philip Henry Gosse:
Head red; neck, shoulders, and underparts of a light and lively green; the greater wing coverts and quills, blue; and the tail scarlet and blue on the upper surface, with the under plumage, both of wings and tail, a mass of intense orange yellow. The specimen here described was procured in the mountains of
Trelawny and St. Anne's by Mr. White, proprietor of the Oxford estate.[2]
The Ara erythrocephala could have been found in the mountains of Trelawney and St. Anne's parishes, Jamaica.[3] It was described to have been found in the mountains, and presumably in forest as well.[4]
Extinction
It is believed that the main reason for the macaw's extinction was overhunting.[5]
The macaw is extinct,[4] and it is conjectured to have been hunted to extinction in the early 19th century.[6] It was a close relative of the Cuban and Dominican macaws.[6] Its existence is considered dubious today.[7]
References
- ↑ BirdLife International 2012. Ara erythrocephala. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded 2012.
- ↑ Rothschild, Walter (1907): Extinct Birds (Online-Version)
- ↑ "Ara erythrocephala". The Extinction Website. Archived from the original on 13 October 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20081013035627/http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct/speciesinfo/redheadedmacaw.htm. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Jamaican Green-and-yellow Macaw Ara erythrocephala". birdlife. http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=30076. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
- ↑ Wiley, James. The extinct macaws of the West Indies, with special reference to Cuban Macaw Ara tricolor. 2013 British Ornithologists’ Club. p. 137. http://boc-online.org/bulletins/downloads/BBOC1332-Wiley.pdf. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Jamaican Green-and-yellow Macaws (Ara erythrocephala)". BeautyOfBirds. http://www.beautyofbirds.com/jamaicangreenandyellowmacaws.html. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
- ↑ Hume, J. P.; Walters, M. (2012). Extinct Birds. A & C Black. ISBN 140815725X.
Wikidata ☰ Q1064115 entry
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