Past Projects

Scarlet Macaw

Although the Scarlet Macaw is listed by IUCN as Least concern there is evidence of a population decline in the wild. It is listed by CITES as Appendix I. The declines in this species' population are due to habitat loss and fragmentation, the wild bird trade and hunting for feathers and food.

In the late 1980s, early 1990s David Woolcock, WPT trustee and Paradise Park curator, began overseeing the Scarlet Macaw Regional Studbook in an effort to collect and store vital captive population and breeding information for this species. The success rates for captive breeding of the Scarlet Macaw are low in some cases, and every bit of information gleaned from captive breeders is vital to the management of captive populations. Efforts have been made to ensure parrot holders become producers of captive parrots, instead of consumers of wild ones.

To learn more about our efforts to help this species:

• PsittaScene Volume 17, Number 3; August 2005; pages 12-13
• PsittaScene Volume 15, Number 3; August 2003; pages 4-7
• PsittaScene Volume 12, Number 2; May 2000; pages 16-17
• PsittaScene Volume 11, Number 3; August 1999; pages 17-18
• PsittaScene Volume 5, Number 4; November 1993; pages 4-5

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