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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 colours in the plumage of the Ara macaws are spectacular. Four species are predominantly green, two species are mostly blue and yellow, and three species (including the extinct Cuban macaw) are mostly red. There is no sexual dimorphism in the plumage, and the plumage of the juveniles is similar to adults, although slightly duller in some ...
Wild species may forage widely, over 100 km (62 mi) for some of the larger species such as Ara araurana (blue and yellow macaw) and Ara ambigua (great green macaw), in search of seasonally available foods. Some foods eaten by macaws in certain regions in the wild are said to contain toxic or caustic substances which they are able to digest.
Genus Anodorhynchus (blue macaws) von Spix, 1824 – three species Common name Scientific name IUCN Red List Status ... Blue-and-yellow macaw: A. ararauna (Linnaeus ...
Enicognathus (two species) Rhynchopsitta – thick-billed parrots (two species) Pyrrhura (around two dozen species, one possibly recently extinct) Anodorhynchus – blue macaws (two living species, one probably recently extinct) Leptosittaca – golden-plumed parakeet; Ognorhynchus – yellow-eared parrot; Diopsittaca – red-shouldered macaw
Species: Blue-and-yellow macaw (Ara ararauna) Sex: Female: Hatched: 1899 () England: ... is a female blue-and-yellow macaw who lives in a garden centre in Reigate, ...
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Ecuador including those of the Galápagos Islands. ... Blue-and-yellow macaw, Ara ararauna; Chestnut-fronted macaw, Ara ...