The three photos above and the one at the bottom were made in
the Raleigh Falls nature reserve in Suriname in November 2005 by
Candy McManiman. They are common there, mostly you see them
flying in pairs high over your head. But they will sit high in
the trees around the airfield of Fungu island, also in pairs
"cuddling" each other.
According to Penard this macaw was regularly seen in the coastal
area of Suriname, where they arrived at the beginning of the dry
season (from june to august) and departed to the interior in
november. Nowadays scarlet macaws are seldom seen in the coastal
area, but indeed all the old observations there (24) are from
june to november with a peak in august. In the interior of
Surinam they can be seen in all months, but they are rare in the
eastern part of the country because of hunting. Macaws do breed
in dead trees, especially in palms (Mauritia flexuosa, like the
one figuring on the photograph of the red-bellied
macaw) They eat hard, large nuts for instance of palms. A video of a flying scarlet macaw (2,4
MB) was made in Walsrode Zoo. Free-flying scarlet macaws in
Holland can be seen on www.araproject.nl
These two photos were made by J.H. Ribot in two zoos: Walsrode 1998 and in the avifauna of Alphen 1999.
Each small square indicates the observation of at least one (group) of these birds in Surinam, the medium ones at least 4 observations on different days and the largest ones 10 or more. The color of each square indicates: blue for coastal area, yellow for savanna and red for rainforest. All observations in the coastal region are dated from before 1985. Mostly in groups of about 6, biggest group: 40 (Ribot, april 1980 Raleigh falls).
| Distribution in Suriname (explanation) | |
| Coastal area |  |
| Savanna | |
| Forests |  |
| Mountain forests | |
| Sipalawini savanna |  |
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