big blue macaw

Big blue macaw(extinction)

The Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus), also called macaw hyacinth, Ararauna, macaws black, Araruna, or simply Macaw is a Psittacidae family bird that lives in the biomes of the Amazon and especially in the Cerrado and Pantanal. This species is threatened with extinction, and other species of blue macaws have been extinct in the wild. It has a blue plumage with a yellow bare skin around the eyes and ribbon of the same color at the base of the jaw. Its beak is overgrown, appearing to be greater than the skull itself. Their food, living freely, consists of palm seeds (coconuts), especially licuri.

It measures about 98 centimeters long and weighs 2.0 kilograms.

Etymology

"Araras" comes from the Tupi a'rara. "Hyacinth" is a reference to the homonymous flower of the blue color. "Ararauna" and "Araruna" come from the Tupi a'rara one, which means "black parrot", "dark macaws."
Description
The wide-blue macaw reaches maturity at three years and play between November and January. Does the position of two eggs and incubation lasts about thirty days. The puppies are about three and a half months in the nest, under the care of parents, to venture in the first flight. The hard family life up to a year and a half, when the pups begin to separate from their parents.

This species is still sighted in three Brazilian areas and small parts of Bolivia. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora Endangered prohibits their sale, but the blue-great-macaw is popular in the illegal trade of birds. It is the largest species of macaw, some reach 1.40 m long. Normally usually eat nuts and fruit (the shape of its beak contributes to the rupture of the shell nuts)

Extinction

They are few of them still there around the world.