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Protecting the Hyacinth Macaw and the Cerrado
By Mike • June 11, 2011 • 4 commentsWho doesn’t love a macaw? Big, bold, beautiful parrots full of character and charm, macaws make us long for some of the world’s wildest places and assure us that, as long as they fly free, those magical wild places are still intact. One of the most majestic macaws is the Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus), a [...]
Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru
By a Guest • March 18, 2011 • 5 commentsSome of the most popular birds in the world are parrots, particularly the large, multi-coloured Ara Macaws. Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. UNLESS that is you get [...]
What is the National Bird of Honduras?
By Corey • March 18, 2011 • 2 commentsThe national bird of Honduras is the Scarlet Macaw. It was decreed a national symbol of Honduras on 28 June 1993 by the National Congress of Honduras as a way to raise awareness of the varied avifauna of Honduras. Despite being the national bird of Honduras the Scarlet Macaw, which is called La Guara Roja [...]
Community conservation – valuing what’s around us
By Dale Forbes • December 7, 2010 • 5 commentsIn the 1980s, single-species conservation projects abounded with concerned groups fighting to save the rhino, cheetah, tiger, blue whale, and many others. People ‘declared war’ on poachers and made a lot of impassioned noise. In the ‘90s, people started to see how the conservation of particular species was contingent on our ability to conserve entire [...]
Macaws, Wild and Tame
By Julie • January 30, 2009 • 7 commentsWe’ve been talking quite a bit about parrots and Guyana lately. One woman with a passion for both and a fascination with the natural world rivaled only by her eloquence in sharing it with others is Julie Zickefoose. You probably know Julie through her artwork, her NPR commentary, or maybe even the heavenly Letters From [...]
The Military Macaws of Jaumave, Mexico
By a Guest • January 21, 2009 • 10 commentsWhen we started organising Parrot Month we wondered (a little anxiously) how it would be recieved by our fellow bloggers: month-long, organised themes might not be seen as blogworthy. Turns out we needn’t have worried. We’ve been truly inspired by the generosity of some top-class bird bloggers who’ve handed reams of text and some world-class [...]
