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Hyacinth macaws sell for $5000–$12,000 per mature breeding pair [45] Captive bred blue-and-yellow macaw were sold for around $1,800 in the United States in the early 1980s, and for $650 to $900 in the early 1990s [44] Live birds and bird eggs are the second most common major seizure by the Australian Customs Service [46]
Hyacinth macaw or hyacinthine macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) 100 cm (39 in) long, 120-140 cm (48-56 in) wingspan. It is almost entirely blue and has black under the wings. It has a large black beak with bright yellow along the sides of the lower part of the beak and also yellow eyerings. [5] South America Lear's macaw or indigo macaw
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.
A quick Google search reveals that Hyacinth Macaws can cost anywhere from $5,000 to $50,000. This is because they are very rare and difficult to breed. This is because they are very rare and ...
A macaw's facial feather pattern is as unique as a fingerprint. [4] The largest macaws are the hyacinth, Buffon's (great green) and green-winged macaws. While still relatively large parrots, mini-macaws of the genera Cyanopsitta, Orthopsittaca and Primolius are significantly smaller than the members of Anodorhynchus and Ara.
Glaucous macaw: A. glaucus (Vieillot, 1816) CR: A small population in northeast Argentina near the Argentina/Brazil/Paraguay border Hyacinth macaw: A. hyacinthinus (Latham, 1790) g VU: Lear's macaw: A. leari Bonaparte, 1856: e EN
Silva was charged with smuggling at least 186 hyacinth macaws into the United States. At the time, each had a street value of $5,000–$12,000. [22] In 1989, Silva became a person of interest in an international probe into bird smuggling known as "Operation Renegade" led by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). [16]
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 ...