Report about Harry Sissen
The Yorkshire parrot breeder will face trial on November 19 for illegally importing nine Macaws
This fabulous work includes a number of parrots including two illustrations of a Blue and Yellow Macaw
Recent additions
They include a report from Cyanopsitta as well as a report in the Miami Herald
Entries on the blue macaws
Include in Parrots and Parrot-like Birds in Aviculture published in the 1920s by Hastings Russell,the Marquess of Tavistock
Information on the blue macaws in aviculture
Firstly the entry on the Hyacinthine Macaw in Greene's Parrots in Captivity and then excerpts from Len Hill's book on Birdland
A.G. Butler's Foreign Birds for Cage and Aviary
From this book I discovered some interesting anecdotal information on the blue macaws
Entries on the Hyacinthine, Lear's, Glaucous, Spix's Macaw
In Volume 20 of The Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum
Publication of some entries
I linked some entries on the Blue Macaws website
Article by Robert Ridgely
It was published as cover story for the very first issue of Birds International
Adding more items to the website
An illustration of a Hyacinthine Macaw, a recent short article in Cotinga and reports on my visit to the Lear's Macaw project
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Latest News
- Great news from Brazil
- Update on the wind farm in the Lear’s macaw conservation area
- Lear’s Macaw international studbook as at 31st December 2018.
- New paper published by the British Ornithologists Union
- Petition against the wind farm in Bahia.
- Some good news from Brazil
- Disturbing article on wind farm endangering Lear’s macaws
- Spix’s macaw film added to the website
- A Spix’s macaw hatches in Brazil’s caatinga
- Poisoning of hyacinthine macaws in the Pantanal through pesticides
- Native trees planted on burned pasture land
- On-line article on American Bird Conservancy website in November 2020
- Interesting paper on the Spix’s Macaw
- Burned pasture land in the Pantanal replaced with groves of native tree species
- Azul Airline decorates one of its jets with images of the Spix’s macaw
- Covid-19 prevents the corn replacement team operating
- Blue macaws help to grow the forest around them
- Fires destroy home of one of the world’s rarest birds in Brazil’s Pantanal
- Another ICMBio president resigns
- Spix’s macaws moved to outdoor aviaries