blue-winged macaw

blue-winged macaw (plural blue-winged macaws)

1. A small macaw species, (Primolius maracana), native to South America

   Synonym: Illiger's macaw

   • 1973 October, Roger B. Clapp, Richard C. Banks, Birds Imported Into the United States in 1971 (Special Scientific Report – Wildlife; 170), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, page 42:

     Illiger's Macaw [Blue-winged] Macaw

   • 1998, Charles W. Heckman, “Aves” (chapter 8.13.4), in The Pantanal of Poconé:  […], Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 340:

     Other species reported at times for southern Mato Grosso, including the […] blue-winged macaw or maracanã-verdadeira, Ara maracana (Vieillot, 1816), were not observed during the study and may be confined to the upland regions to the north of the Pantanal.