Dominican green-and-yellow macaw explained

The Dominican green-and-yellow macaw (Ara atwoodi), Atwood's macaw or Dominican macaw, is an extinct species of macaw that may have lived on the island of Dominica.[1] It is known only through the writings of British colonial judge Thomas Atwood in his 1791 book, The History of the Island of Dominica:[2]

Austin Hobart Clark initially included these macaws in Ara guadeloupensis in 1905,[3] but upon being referred to Atwood's writings, he listed them as a distinct species in 1908.[4] As no archeological remains are known, it is widely considered a hypothetical extinct species.[5] [6] Atwood described a bird which was commonly captured for food and pets.[7]

The Dominican macaw probably became extinct in the late 18th or early 19th century.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Macaw of Dominica . Nascimento . Rafael Silva do . 18 December 2011 . Earthling Nature.
  2. Book: Atwood . Thomas . The History of the Island of Dominica . 1791 . London, England . J. Johnson . Internet Archive.
  3. Clark . August Hobart . July 1905 . The Lesser Antillean Macaws . 4070159 . . American Ornithological Society . 22 . 3 . 366–373 . 10.2307/4070159.
  4. Clark . August Hobart . July 1908 . The Macaw of Dominica . 4070527 . . American Ornithological Society . 25 . 3 . 309–311 . 10.2307/4070527.
  5. Wily . James W. . Kirwan . Guy M. . 14 June 2013 . The extinct macaws of the West Indies, with special reference to Cuban Macaw Ara Tricolor . Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . 133 . 2 . 125–156.
  6. Ridgway . Robert . The Birds of North and Middle America . Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 50 . 5 May 1916 . Washington, DC . Smithsonian Institution . 7 . 121 .
  7. Web site: Birdlife International . Ara atwoodi . 2007 IUCN List of Threatened Species . https://web.archive.org/web/20071222111419/http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/40141/all . December 22, 2007 . 2004.
  8. Web site: Ara atwoodi . Zipcode Zoo . https://web.archive.org/web/20071201013737/http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/A/Ara_atwoodi.asp . December 1, 2007. BayScience Foundation.

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