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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Monday 23rd November 2020
Covid-19 prevents the corn replacement team operating
The corn replacement team operating in Bahia visiting corn plantations foraged by Lear’s Macaws and refunding farmers with vouchers is not able to operate because of Covid-19 restrictions. Most of the farmers are elderly and contact has to b ... Read More »
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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)