Kate Gammond, who keeps and breeds Hyacinthine Macaws in Bahrain, sent me some information on her experiences

Some time ago Kate Gammond, who keeps and breeds Hyacinthine Macaws in Bahrain sent me some information on her experiences. There was also an article published in March 2005 on these experiences and I reproduce this here. I shall endeavour to get some more up-to-date information. Every year in Germany at the end of October the aviculturists' group based in a suburb of Cologne holds a meeting of Hyacinthine Macaw keepers to discuss problems and exchange ideas and information. The persistent problem of full term dead in shell hatching failures peculiar to the species will form an important part of the next meeting there in October 2007.