Images of Hyacinthine Macaws

Click on thumbnail image to view the full sized picture. Many of the images on this page - marked PAA - have been provided by the Projeto Arara Azul under the direction of Neiva Guedes, who has copyright. Please do not download any of these images to other websites or for any other purpose.

Articles on the Hyacinthine Macaw in the wild are to be found at this website page and images from the project nest box programme can be seen here.

Two blue macaws - a painting by Joacilei Cardoso (PAA)

Building in Campo Grande with huge mural of Hyacinthine Macaw

Macaws foraging palm nuts on the ground

Acuri palm nuts - the main food of the Hyacinthine Macaw

A cluster of acuri palm nuts on the tree - the main food of the Hyacinthine Macaw

Hyacinthine Macaw in flight (PAA)

Another Hyacinthine Macaw in flight (PAA)

A pair of Hyacinthine Macaws in flight

Typical habitat for the blue macaw

A pair of macaws take flight

A pair of macaws at the nest hole (PAA)

Two young macaws (2-3 years old) from a group of 7 immatures

Three more recently independent juveniles

A fledgling macaw in the nest (PAA)

Four macaws on a ranch fence

Neiva holding a 16 week old macaw

A nine week old macaw

A macaw looking out of a nest hole (PAA)

A day old chick

Neiva and Tony with a fledgling macaw

Two of this year's young (March 1998)in a nest hole (PAA)

Neiva with a young macaw earlier this year (1998)(PAA) A pair of Hyacinthine macaws nesting in cliffs in Piauí

Hyacinthine macaws feeding in a bocaiuva palm tree (Pantanal)(PAA) Young macaw - 55 days old - from breeding season in 2001(PAA) Siblings from natural cavity in breeding season 2003/4

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