- Dominican Green-and-yellow Macaw
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Dominican Green-and-Yellow Macaw 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, 1908The 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]
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
Macaws Genus Species (extinctions: † indicates a species confirmed to be extinct, ₴ indicates evidence only from sub-fossils)Anodorhynchus Cyanopsitta Ara Blue-and-yellow Macaw (or Blue-and-gold Macaw) • Blue-throated Macaw • Military Macaw • Great Green Macaw (or Buffon's Macaw) • Scarlet Macaw • Red-and-green Macaw (or Green-winged Macaw) • Red-fronted Macaw • Chestnut-fronted Macaw (or Severe Macaw) • Cuban Red Macaw † • Saint Croix Macaw † ₴Orthopsittaca Primolius Diopsittaca Hypothetical extinct macaws
(unconfirmed genus)Martinique Macaw • Red-tailed Blue-and-yellow Macaw • Lesser Antillean Macaw • Jamaican Green-and-yellow Macaw • Jamaican Red Macaw • Dominican Green-and-yellow Macaw • Oné CouliNeotropical parrots (tribe: Arini) • List of macaws • Mini-macaws 
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