Macaw parrot feeding on a branch Macaw parrot of red, blue and green colour

Macaw parrot feeding on a branch.
Both parrots and macaws belong to one of the largest bird orders, the Psittaciformes, which includes all cockatoos, macaws, parakeets, and parrots. This bird family is quite diverse with more than 350 different species. All the members of this family have a flexible, muscular tongue in a thick hooked beak and zygodactyl claws.
Big, colorful and very intelligent, these are the largest kind of parrots. These more closely related to smaller parakeets than other parrots. The macaws are New World parrots and are distributed through most of South America up to central Mexico. To see a group of these colorful birds in flight is a sight unambiguously associated with large rainforests.
Parrots, in general, have a wide geographical range, and can be found mainly in the Southern hemisphere in a variety of habitats, and are not limited to the tropical regions. Some are migratory and form breeding colonies in certain areas. The macaws, on the other hand, are found in the tropical rainforests or woodland areas from central Mexico down to South America where they live and breed.
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