{{Short description|Species of bird found in Bolivia}} {{Speciesbox | name = Red-fronted macaw | image = Ara rubrogenys -Tulsa Zoo, Oklahoma, USA-8a-3c.jpg | image_caption = At Tulsa Zoo, Oklahoma, USA | status = CR | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International. |year=2021 |title=''Ara rubrogenys'' |volume=2021 |article-number=e.T22685572A196567391 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T22685572A196567391.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref> | status2 = CITES_A1 | status2_system = CITES | status2_ref = <ref>{{Cite Species+ |id=6826 |title=''Ara rubrogenys'' Lafresnaye, 1847 |access-date=26 July 2025}}</ref> | genus = Ara | species = rubrogenys | authority = Lafresnaye, 1847 | range_map = Ara rubrogenys map.svg}}
The '''red-fronted macaw''' ('''''Ara rubrogenys''''') is a parrot endemic to a small semi-desert mountainous area of Bolivia. It is a critically endangered species; it has been successfully bred in captivity, and is available, if not common, as a pet. It is also sometimes known in the literature as '''Lafresnaye's macaw''', named for the French ornithologist Frédéric de Lafresnaye, who was one of the first to describe the species.<ref name="Alderton" />
==Description== The red-fronted macaw is {{convert|55|–|60|cm|in|round=0.5|abbr=on|lk=on}} long. It is mostly green, and has a red forehead, a red patch over the ears and bright red to orange edged under wing coverts. It has an area of pinkish skin around the eyes extending to the beak. It has red at the bend of wings and blue primary wing feathers.
==Range and habitat== The red-fronted macaw is native to a small mountainous area of south-central Bolivia situated about 200 km west of Santa Cruz, in the department of the same name, where the climate is medium altitude semi-desert. The natural vegetation consists mostly of cactus (large and small) and thorny trees and scrub. The climate is semi arid with cold nights and hot days. Rain comes in infrequent heavy storms. It is unusual in that it is the only macaw to inhabit such a climatic zone. Most macaws nest in holes in large trees, however here there are no very large trees in its range so it nests in vertical fissures in cliff faces.<ref name="Lanning" /> The bird has been captured for the pet trade in the past and killed by local farmers because it raids their crops. [[File:Ara rubrogenys -Jurong Bird Park -8a.jpg|right|thumb|At Jurong Bird Park, Singapore]]
==Gallery== <gallery perrow =3> Image:Ara rubrogenys -Jurong BirdPark-8.jpg|Upper body Image:Ara rubrogenys -head-6.jpg|Head Image:Ara rubrogenys -20030516.jpg|Side – Jurong BirdPark, Singapore File:Red-fronted Macaw (Ara rubrogenys) -on branch-3cp.jpg|Wing clipped File:Ara rubrogenys -Zoo de Doué-la-fontaine-8a-2c.jpg|In the air File:Ara rubrogenys -Doué la Fontaine zoo-flying-8a.jpg|Flying </gallery>
==References== {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="Alderton">{{Cite book|title=Atlas of Parrots of the World|last=Alderton|first=D.|date=1991 |isbn=0-86622-120-4|page=211|publisher=T.F.H. Publications }}</ref> <ref name="Lanning">{{Cite journal |last=Lanning |first=D. V. |date=1991 |title=Distribution and breeding biology of the Red-fronted Macaw |url=http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/wilson/v103n03/p0357-p0365.pdf |journal=Wilson Bulletin |volume=103 |issue=3 |pages=357–365}}</ref> }}
==External links== *[http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/red-fronted-macaw-ara-rubrogenys Red-fronted macaw videos] on the Internet Bird Collection *{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20001020000938/http://www.bird-stamps.org/cspecies/7419100.htm Stamps]}} (for Bolivia) *[http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=red-fronted+macaw&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Red-fronted macaw photo gallery] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826113926/http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=red-fronted+macaw&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 |date=2014-08-26 }} VIREO *[http://freespace.virgin.net/susan.armitage/BOL1.HTM Wild macaws (Bolivia section)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709091140/http://freespace.virgin.net/susan.armitage/BOL1.HTM |date=2008-07-09 }} * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109479#page/457/mode/1up 1840s illustration] by P. Oudart
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red-fronted macaw Category:Birds of the Bolivian Andes Category:Endemic birds of Bolivia red-fronted macaw Category:Macaws Category:Taxa named by Frédéric de Lafresnaye