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Endangered
Species
Description: The Hyacinth macaw is solid cobalt blue
with bright yellow skin around the eye and at the base of the
lower beak. The eye is solid black, the cheeks are fully feathered
and the beak is very large and black. The black tongue is striped
on the sides with yellow which becomes more defined with age.
When wet, the feathers turn vibrant blue green. The Hyacinth
Macaw is named after the flower with the same purplish-blue
color.
Similar species: The "blue macaws" are all
very rare or extinct. Lear's Macaw (A. leari) is significantly
smaller, is a grayer blue color and has a broader yellow patch
of skin both around the eye and at the base of the beak. There
are approximately 400 alive today. The Glaucous Macaw (A.
glaucus) is extinct. The Spix macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii)
is small, pale blue, with a bare cheek patch.The last wild Spix
macaw disappeared in 2000.
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