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The hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus), or hyacinthine macaw, is a parrot native to central and eastern South America. With a length (from the top of its head to the tip of its long pointed tail) of about one meter it is longer than any other species of parrot.
The Spix’s macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii) is a rare blue-gray parrot with bright blue wings, a tail, and an ash-gray crown. Indigenous to Brazil, these little blue parrots inhabited Juazeiro and Parnagua.
Hyacinth macaws have impressive cobalt blue feathers, which contrast with their bare yellow eye ring (which, in other species of macaw is white) and the yellow patch of skin beside the lower bill. Their irises are dark-brown in color and their feet are dark gray.
Learn about the critically endangered blue-throated macaw, a colorful parrot species found only in northern Bolivia. Discover its habitat, diet, threats, and efforts to protect it from extinction.
Hyacinth macaws are the largest of the parrots and, as their name implies, are covered with bright blue plumage. They have bare yellow eye ring circles around large black eyes, a yellow chin, a strongly hooked beak and zygodactylous feet (2 toes that point forward and 2 toes that point backward).
20 maj 2021 · The blue macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) is a psittaciform bird belonging to the Psittacidae family. Within this group, we find the birds commonly known as parrots. In turn, this family includes macaws and other similar birds, located in America and Africa.
Species at the greatest risk of extinction include the blue-throated macaw (Ara glaucogularis) of northern Bolivia, the great green macaw (Ara ambiguus) of northern Colombia and Central America, and Lear’s macaw (Anodorhynchus leari) of Brazil.
