Extract on Glaucous Macaw from the -The Current Distribution and Status of Mainland Neotropical Parrots
by Robert S. RIDGELY published in "Conservation of New World Parrots" (Pages 238-40), the Proceedings of the ICBP Parrot Working Group Meeting on St. Lucia in 1980.
Read ArticleThe Glaucous Macaw - Does it still exist? (with original footnotes)
by Tony Pittman. Published without footnotes in the Parrot Society Magazine, 1992, Vol. XXVI.
Read ArticleEntry on the Glaucous Macaw in Threatened Birds of the Americas
by N.J.COLLAR, L.P GONZAGA, N.KRABBE, A.MADROÑO NIETO, L.G. NARANJO, T.A.PARKER III and D.C.WEGE. Published at the end of 1992 by the Smithsonian Institution Press of Washington and London in cooperation with the International Council for Bird Preservation, Cambridge, U.K.
Read ArticleLos que se van. Especies argentinas en peligro, Guacamayo violáceo o azul
by Juan Carlos CHEBEZ. Published as part of a series in 1994 by Editorial Albatros, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Pages 43-47)
Read ArticleEnglish translation of Los que van especies argentinas en peligro
Juan Carlos Chebez published a paper " Los que van. Especies argentinas en peligro, Guacamayo violaceo o azul" as part of a series by Editorial Albatros, Buenas Aires in 1994. This is a translation into English of the original paper written in Spanish. The original is above in the website page.
Read ArticleSome new information on the Glaucous Macaw
by Tony PITTMAN. Published in the Parrot Society Magazine, 1997, Vol. XXXI.
Read ArticleThe Glaucous Macaw - Dead or alive? The continuing saga
by Tony PITTMAN. Published in Just Parrots, 1997/8, Issue 19
Read ArticleLos últimos días del guacamayo azul
by Claudio Bertonatti. Published in Vida Silvestre, the magazine of the Fundación Vida Silvestre Argentina. July/August 2001, Issue Nº 78, pages 44-50
Read ArticleEnglish translation of Los ultimos dias del guacamayo azul
I have translated the Spanish paper by Claudio Bertonatti "Los ultimos dias del guacamayo azul". It contains interesting information about the Glaucous Macaw and its disappearance
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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)