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Glaucous Macaw  

 
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There have been only two reliable reports in the 20th century of the Glaucous Macaw in the wild - one direct observation in Uruguay in 1951 and one based on local reports in Parana in the early 1960s.

Species Profile
Genus:
Anodorhynchus

Species:
glaucus

Size: Adult Weight:
72cm (28.1 in) Not available

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Both adults green/blue, more green on underparts; grey/green tinge on head and neck; dark grey/brown throat, turning to wash on cheeks and upper breast. Bill grey/black. Eye ring bare and yellow, with paler yellow tear-drop shaped lappet at sides of lower mandible. Eye brown.

Colourization Juvenile: Undescribed

Call: Undescribed

Recent Academic Research: Google Scholar - search results

 

Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E203.htm&Pic=203_1.JPG

CITES http://www.cites.org/eng/resources/species.html

BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1545&m=0

Parrots: A Guide to Parrots of the World, Juniper and Parr, 1998.

Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.