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Anodorhynchus is a genus of large blue macaws from open and semi-open habitats in central and eastern South America. It includes two extant species, the hyacinth macaw and Lear's macaw also known as the indigo macaw, and one probably extinct species, the glaucous macaw. At about 100 centimetres (39 in) in length the hyacinth macaw is the ...
Blue-throated macaw (Ara glaucogularis) 75–85 cm (30–34 in) long. Blue upperparts and mostly yellow lowerparts, blue throat. Areas of pale skin on the sides of the face are covered with lines of small dark-blue feathers, with pinkish bare skin at the base of the beak. [11] North Bolivia Scarlet macaw (Ara macao) 81–96 cm (32–36 in) long.
Hyacinth macaws Close up of Hyacinth Macaw These parrots, native to central and eastern South America, are intelligent birds that are best known for their bold blue coloring.
The Hyacinth macaw mostly nests in Manduvi trees, which rely on the toco toucan for 83.3% of the tree's distribution of seeds. The toco toucan also feeds on 53% of the hyacinth macaw's offspring as eggs. [13] Eggs are also regularly preyed on by corvids such as jays and crows, [14] [15] opossums, [14] skunks [15] and coatis.
It also contains the largest flighted parrot in the world, the hyacinth macaw. Some species, such as the blue-and-yellow macaw and sun conure are popular pet parrots. Molecular studies have dated the divergence of the Arini tribe from the ancestral neotropical parrots to late in the Paleogene period about 30–35 million years ago.
Golden-collared macaw: P. auricollis (Cassin, 1853) LC: Blue-headed macaw: P. couloni (Sclater, 1876) g VU: Southern Peru east of the Andes, and the along the northern Bolivia/Brazil and Bolivia/Peru borders Blue-winged macaw: P. maracana (Vieillot, 1816) i NT
The glaucous macaw (Anodorhynchus glaucus) is a critically endangered or possibly extinct species of large, blue and grey South American parrot, a member of a large group of neotropical parrots known as macaws. This macaw is closely related to Lear's macaw (A. leari) and the hyacinth macaw (A. hyacinthinus).
Blue-and-yellow macaw, a species of parrot resident in tropical South America and Miami-Dade County, Florida; Anodorhynchus, a genus of large blue macaws from South America genus of large blue macaws from South America Glaucous macaw, an all-blue macaw believed to be extinct; Hyacinth macaw, a blue macaw that is the longest and largest flying ...