St. Croix's Macaw

St. Croix's Macaw
	St. Croix's Macaw, skeletal reconstruction with the bones marked in red
Systematics
Order :	Parrots (Psittaciformes)
Family :	True parrots (Psittacidae)
Tribe :	New World Parrots (Arini)
Genre :	Real macaws ( macaw )
Type :	St. Croix's Macaw
Scientific name
	Macaw autocthones
	Wetmore , 1937

The St. Croix's Macaw ( Ara autocthones ) is a little-known extinct species of macaw from the island of Saint Croix , part of the American Virgin Islands , a group of islands in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean . It is known exclusively from a subfossil left tibiotarsus , which the ornithologist Alexander Wetmore found and described in 1937 in Concordia, Southwest Cape, Saint Croix in a clam pile of the Arawak or Caribs .

Its extinction is believed to be due to habitat destruction or hunting. But there is still no evidence of this.

literature

Edwin Antonius: Lexicon of extinct birds and mammals . Natur und Tier Verlag, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-931587-76-2
David Day: The Doomsday Book of Animals . Ebury Press, London 1981, ISBN 0-670-27987-0

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