GLAUCOUS MACAW (A.glaucus)
Description: Slate-blue with a greyish tinge to the head and neck and a browner tinge to the breast. The flights and the underside of the tail, also the under wing-covens, are blackish. The naked skin surrounding the eye and at the base of the lower mandible is yellow. The bill is black. Length: about 28in.
Distribution: South-eastern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay. According to de Schauensee (33b) there is no authentic Argentine record for this macaw.
Remarks: An extreme rarity in aviculture.
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Tuesday 1st July 2025
Report on the impact of wild-fires on the Hyacinth macaws in the wild
There is a report by the Instituto Arara Azul published in 2019 on the impact of fire on the Hyacinth Macaw population inthe wild. The report can be read under " The Pantanal and its future."
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" Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret "
( If you drive out nature with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back)
Horace (65-8 BC)