What are the eating habits of macaws?

So you fell in love with a colorful scarlet macaw and brought her home to join the family. As she hails from such exotic places as Guatemala, Costa Rica and Brazil, you might wonder about the natural eating habits of your vibrant housemate and how to feed her at home. read more

Avianweb stresses the importance of variety in feeding your scarlet macaw. Her natural eating habits would drive her to seek an assortment of different tastes and textures if she were in the wild, so giving her a varied selection of food will keep her happy and healthy. read more

Only offer your scarlet macaw foods that a veterinarian has confirmed as safe. Wild Diet Scarlet macaws out in their natural roaming range feed heavily on nuts, stems, fruit, flowers, bugs, nectar, snails, seeds and foliage. read more

Macaws eat a fairly vast variety of food, more likely than most parrots one would come across, this makes them a lot of work as their staple diet needs to consist of something more than a pan of parrot seed every day or two. read more