BlueMacaws

A Site Dedicated to the Blue Macaws and Parrot Conservation

Extract from The List of Animals in the London Zoo

compiled and published in 1883.

Ara hyacinthina

a. purchased 20.8.1867
b. " " 18.5.1870
c. presented by Hugh William Esq. 16.6.1876

Ara leari

a. purchased June 1860

Ara spixi

a. purchased 15.11.1878 (see pl. LXI)

End of extract

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Sunday 13th October 2024
Cromwell Purchase reports briefly on Spix’s Macaw project

Cromwell Purchase has just published an up-to-date on the Spix’s Macaw project in Brazil. he writes " We are monitoring 11 in the wild, so 10 left of the original 20 released in 2022, one had to be returned to captivity because of its behavi ... Read More »

" 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)