Great Green Macaw

• Its survival depends on a single tree: the mountain almond provides it with both food and nest holes, and the logging of that timber species is the direct cause of its decline.
• In Costa Rica conservation projects pay landowners to leave the almond trees standing and to protect the nests, turning the tree into an economic asset rather than timber.
• A pair needs an enormous territory and breeds only every one or two years, so the species recovers extremely slowly even where logging has stopped.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Humid lowland forest with mountain almond trees, from Honduras to Ecuador

Sexual maturity

5 years

Gestation / incubation

26 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

3 eggs

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ara_ambiguus

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.