BlueMacaws

A Site Dedicated to the Blue Macaws and Parrot Conservation

Use of species name Anodorhynchus

albeit slightly differently spelt, by K. LICHTENSTEIN in his Nomenclator Avium Musei Zoologici Berolinensis published in Berlin in 1854.

This slim volume lists all the scientific names of the avian specimens kept in the collection of the Royal University of Berlin at the time.

On Page 73 there appears two entries for the blue macaws as follows:-

Anodorynchus Spix. glaucus Süd Brasilien (southern Brazil) 2 (specimens)

hyacinthinus Para 1 (specimen)

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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)