Macaw

Macaw, any of several colorful, long-tailed parrots of the genus Ara. Macaws have powerful beaks, which they use for cracking open nuts, and their faces are bare of feathers. The largest parrots, macaws measure 12–39 in (30–100 cm) long and eat nuts, seeds and fruit. Easily tamed, they live in screeching flocks in forested areas of tropical America and Mexico.