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The blue-and-yellow macaw (Ara ararauna), also known as the blue-and-gold macaw, is a large Neotropical parrot with a mostly blue dorsum, light yellow/orange venter, and gradient hues of green on top of its head. It is a member of the large group of neotropical parrots known as macaws.
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.
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
Blue and gold macaws (sometimes called blue and yellow macaws) are a type of tropical bird most commonly known as a parrot. Due to the robust exotic pet trade, they are endangered in their home ...
Like the rest of the genus the wings of the blue-and-yellow macaw are long, as is the tail. The Ara macaws are large parrots ranging from 46–51 cm (18–20 in) in length and 285 to 287 g (10 oz) in weight in the chestnut-fronted macaw, to 90–95 cm (35.5–37.5 in) and 1,708 g (60.2 oz) in the green-winged macaw. The wings of these macaws ...
The black-and-yellow tropical bird stares curiously into the camera overlooking a section of road near Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, its beak open as it appears to squawk loudly.
Genus Anodorhynchus (blue macaws) von Spix, 1824 – three species Common name ... Blue-and-yellow macaw: A. ararauna (Linnaeus, 1758) LC: Red-and-green macaw:
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 ...