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Status in the Wild

World Population:
Not recorded

Range:
D.n. nobilis: North of Amazon River in E Venezuela, in Delta Amacuro to N Monagas and north to SE Bolivar, Guianas, and NE Brazil in Roraima, N Para and Amapa.
D.n. cumanensis: NE Brazil, south of Amazon River, from Alagoas and Bahia west to Maranhao and SE Para, and south to C Goias.
D.n. longipennis: Interior of Brazil from C Goias and W Minas Gerais to NW Sao Paulo and Mato Grosso, through SE Peru to E and C Bolivia; introduced to Sao Paulo city.


Habitat:
Found up to 1400m (4592 ft) in a variety of open wooded habitats, including savannas with scattered bushes and palm groves, sand belt forests, forest fringed savannas and coastal plantations, cerrado with Mauritia palm groves and fringes of the caatinga with Mauritia palms.

Threat Summary:
Has been some international trade in wild birds.

IUCN Rating:
Least concern

Wild Diet:
Feeds on nuts, seeds, fruits, berries and flowers; sometimes takes cereal crops.

CITES Rating:
Appendix II

Ecology:
Social; found in large flocks outside breeding season. Sometimes associates with the Red-bellied Macaw. Nests in arboreal termitaria (termite nests in trees), tree cavities or holes in living palm.

Clutch and Egg Size:
2-5 rounded eggs, 33.0 x 27.0mm (1.3 x 1 in).

Breeding Season:
February-June

More Info Sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diopsittaca

http://www.oiseaux.net/birds/distribution/red-shouldered.macaw.html