🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Blue-and-yellow Macaw live?

Ara ararauna has 124,295 records in 62 countries and territories, from 1880 to 2026. Most records come from Brazil.

Blue-and-yellow Macaw
Blue-and-yellow Macaw — Photo: Luc Viatour · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesPsittaciformesPsittacidaeAra

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Brazil 39,106
Venezuela 32,337
Peru 18,617
Colombia 10,255
Ecuador 8,007
Bolivia 4,688
United States 3,425
Puerto Rico 3,309
Panama 1,277
Guyana 1,250
Trinidad & Tobago 630
Suriname 482
Paraguay 244
French Guiana 138
Belgium 108
Costa Rica 80
Netherlands 76
Argentina 32
Taiwan 28
Spain 25
Australia 23
Germany 18
Singapore 13
Japan 11
Curaçao 10
Thailand 10
Mexico 8
United Kingdom 6
Hong Kong 6
Italy 6
Aruba 5
Bahamas 5
Dominican Republic 5
France 5
Maldives 5
Indonesia 4
Portugal 4
Antigua & Barbuda 3
Grenada 3
US Virgin Islands 3

Showing the top 40 of 62 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.