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The Indigo Macaw Re-appraised - AFA Watchbird 1992

This is the article by Robin Pickering and Joe Cuddy, which appeared in the August/September 1992 issue of AFA Watchbird. It is about the differences between the Lear’s Macaw and the Glaucous Macaw, which the authors noticed  

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Prehistoric Cave Paintings Discovered

by Tony PITTMAN. Published in Cage and Aviary Birds on 12th March, 1994

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Anodorhynchus macaws as followers of extinct megafauna: an hypothesis

by Carlos YAMASHITA. Published in " Ararajuba ",the Journal of the Brazilian Ornithological Society 5(2) P. 176-182 (December 1997)

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Internal papillomatous disease. Managing the papilloma-positive breeder bird

by Margaret A. WISSMAN, DVM and Bill PARSONS, Wesley Chapel, Florida. Published in afa Watchbird (Pages 26-27) Volume XXVII. Number 4, July/Aug 2000

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Collared Forest-falcon Micrastur semitorquatus courtship and mating, with take-over of a macaw nest

by Bernabé LÓPEZ-LANÚS. Published in Cotinga, the Journal of the Neotropical Bird Club, (Pages 9-11), Number 14, Autumn 2000.

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Aging in Macaws

by Susan CLUBB, D.V.M. Published in the ASA Avicultural Bulletin in August 1993.

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Amazona kawalli is a valid name for a valid species

This article was produced by Nigel Collar and myself and published in 1996. I had come across the species at the home of Nelson Kawall, who kept parrots at his home in Sao Paulo in the early 1990s and who the specimen was named after.  I then came across a specimen in the Natural History Museum in Berlin and used my position as Deputy Director General of the German-British Chamber of Commerce in London to have the specimen sent to Nigel Collar’s office in Cambridge at Birdlife International for us to research and validate the name.     

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  • Sunday 29th September 2024

    Cambridge University Press have just released an article on the Spix’s Macaw project . You can read this on the Contents page for Spix’s Macaw in the wild

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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)