Dominican Green-and-yellow Macaw
| Dominican Green-and-Yellow Macaw | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Psittaciformes |
| Family: | Psittacidae |
| Subfamily: | Psittacinae |
| Tribe: | Arini |
| Genus: | Ara |
| Species: | A. atwoodi |
| Binomial name | |
| Ara atwoodi Clark, 1908 |
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The Dominican Green-and-Yellow Macaw or Atwood's Macaw(Ara atwoodi), also called the Dominican Macaw, is extinct, and only known through the writings of zoologist Thomas Atwood in 1791. Atwood wrote of a macaw from Dominica with green and yellow plumage and "a scarlet coloured fleshy substance from the ears to the root of the bill."[1] No archeological remains are known of this bird, and it is thus widely considered an extinct hypothetically existent parrot. Atwood described a bird which was commonly captured for food and pets.[2]
Clark, the zoologist and binomial authority on the parrot, initially included these macaws in Ara guadeloupensis. On discovering Atwood's writings, however, Clark listed them separately, considering them distinct[2]
The Dominican Macaw probably became extinct in the late 18th or early 19th century.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Extinction: Dominican macaw. Accessed: 17 July 2007.
- ^ a b BirdLife International 2004. Ara atwoodi. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <[1]>. Accessed: 17 July 2007.
- ^ ZipCode Zoo: Ara atwoodi. 2007. BayScience Foundatation. URL: http://zipcodezoo.com. Accessed: 17 July 2007
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