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The bird has white skin, with its face having nearly no feathers beside a few black ones spaced apart from each other forming a striped pattern around the eyes. The irises are pale light yellow. [citation needed] Blue-and-yellow macaws can live from 30 to 35 years in the wild, and reach sexual maturity between the ages of 3 and 6 years. [7]
Blue-and-yellow macaw or blue-and-gold macaw (Ara ararauna) 80–90 cm (31.5–35.5 in) long. Mostly blue back and yellow front. Blue chin and green forehead. The upper zone of the bare white skin around each eye extending to the beak is patterned by lines of small dark feathers. Panama, Colombia through to south-central Brazil.
The Blue-and-yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna) is a large South American parrot with blue top parts and yellow underparts. These birds are quite intelligent and are popular in aviculture. This specimen was photographed in Jurong Bird Park.Photo: Luc Viatour
Little blue macaw or Spix's macaw, Cyanopsitta spixii (probably extinct in the wild) From L to R: scarlet macaw, blue-and-yellow macaw, and military macaw Blue-and-yellow macaw (left) and blue-throated macaw (right) Ara. Blue-and-yellow macaw or blue-and-gold macaw, Ara ararauna; Blue-throated macaw, Ara glaucogularis; Military macaw, Ara militaris
Nonetheless, Latham mentions another bird, which he calls the 'blue maccaw', supposedly the same size. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] This blue macaw was already described in Latham's 1781 volume of his A general synopsis of birds as merely a variety of the blue and yellow macaw , [ 7 ] and was previously figured in the work of Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1760 ...
For more information see the article talking bird. Subcategories. ... Blue-and-yellow macaw; Blue-fronted amazon; Budgerigar; C. Cockatiel; Common hill myna; Common myna;
Featured is the Buffon's Macaw Eye Color difference between the Buffons (Ara Ambigua) and the Military, (Ara Militaria). Reprints are by request please. (above cut from article page)Just added the link jimfbleak 06:12, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC) The article says that only the Blue-and-Yellow macaw is the only one not endangered in the wild.
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