The Spix's Macaw in aviculture

4 years after the new pairs were formed the Spix's Macaws start to breed. A report in the June/September 1999 issue (Pages 12-15) of Cyanopsitta, the newsletter of the Loro Parque Foundation, Teneriffe.

News on the Spix's Macaws at Loro Parque by Miguel Bueno, Curator of Birds, Loro Parque. Published on the Blue Macaws website on 23rd May, 2000

"Re-pairing of the Spix's macaws at Loro Parque Fundación". A report in the December 2001 (No.63, Page 19) issue of Cyanopsitta, the official newsletter of the Loro Parque Fundación

"A journey to Brazil for the Spix's Macaw. A report in Cyanopsitta, the newsletter of Loro Parque Fundación. No. 72 - March 2004, Pages 18-19.

 

"Loro Parque Fundación jumps for joy: Spix's Macaw hatched" A press release from Loro Parque (June 2004).

 

Proventricular Dilatation Disease (PDD) in Spix's Macaws (Cyanopsitta spixii). A presentation by Sven Hammer, Helga Gerlach, Marcellus Bürkle and  J.Schulz at the 42nd International Symposium on Diseases of Zoo and Wild Animals, 4th to 8th May 2005, Prague, Czech Republic.

 

"Spix’s macaw Cyanopsitta spixii transfer." A press release by Al-Wabra Wildlife Conservation in October 2005

 

Managing the world's largest population of Spix's Macaws. A presentation by Ryan Watson at the 33rd Annual Conference of the American Federation of Aviculture, Los Angeles, July 2007,

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