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title: "Great Green Macaw"
description: "Ara ambiguus — Uccelli. The great green macaw (Ara ambiguus), also known as Buffon's macaw or the great military macaw, is a critically endangered Central and South America parrot found in Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/great-green-macaw
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Great Green Macaw

> Ara ambiguus — Uccelli. The great green macaw (Ara ambiguus), also known as Buffon's macaw or the great military macaw, is a critically endangered Central and South America parrot found in Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador.

- Scientific name: *Ara ambiguus*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta), `jungle` (Giungla)
- iNaturalist observations: 1677
- Wikidata: [Q846974](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q846974)
- iNaturalist taxon: [47675](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47675)

## Names

- en: Great Green Macaw
- de: Großer Soldatenara
- es: Guacamaya verde limón
- fr: Ara de Buffon
- nl: Buffons ara
- pt: Arara-militar-grande
- pl: Ara oliwkowa

## Countries with the most observations

CR (1224), PA (43), NI (22), HN (12), EC (10), CO (9)

## Summary

The great green macaw (Ara ambiguus), also known as Buffon's macaw or the great military macaw, is a critically endangered Central and South America parrot found in Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. Two allopatric subspecies are recognized; the nominate subspecies, Ara ambiguus ssp. ambiguus, occurs from Honduras to Colombia, while Ara ambiguus ssp. guayaquilensis appears to be endemic to remnants of dry forests on the southern Pacific coast of Ecuador. The nominate subspecies lives in the canopy of wet tropical forests and in Costa Rica is usually associated with the almendro tree, Dipteryx…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_green_macaw

## Photo

![Great Green Macaw](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/great-green-macaw/medium.jpg)

Photo: Don Wellmann · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/199861085

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/great-green-macaw?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).