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 16th May 2022
I have just received an update from Rosemary Low on the situation in Bahia with the power lines. You can read this in the articles section on Lear’s Macaws in the Wild. The French power company - Voltalia - has not yet received an operation ... 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)