Welcome to our Website
A Site Dedicated to the Blue Macaws and Parrot Conservation
This unique site - the only one of its kind - is dedicated to the gathering and dissemination of information about the Blue Macaws, the Anodorhynchus group of parrots, and the promotion of parrot conservation. We hope that you will enjoy perusing our site, which is full of information from all over the world about the Blue Macaws.
Information about Blue Macaws
We have comprehensive information on and images of the Hyacinthine Macaw ( A.hyacinthinus), the Lear’s Macaw (A.leari) and Glaucous Macaw (A.glaucus) as well as the extremely rare Spix’s Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii).
Preservation of the Blue Macaws and their Habitat - Can You Help?
If you are curious about these birds, their conservation or indeed interested in doing something however small or large, to preserve this magnificent and captivating species, by the development and implementation of workable strategies to protect and save parrot species from extinction, or if you can contribute any more to the cause of protecting their fast disappearing habitat in Brazil, which is threatened by the ever present threat from the human population, then we will be delighted to hear from you - please get in touch by email.
Quotes
" Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret "
( If you drive out nature with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back)
Horace (65-8 BC)"Creatures who have traveled with us through the ages are now apparently doomed, as their habitat - and the old, old habitat of humans - falls before the slow-motion explosion of expanding world economies"
Gary Snyder (1990)"We live in a kind of dark age, craftily lit with synthetic light, so that no one can tell how dark it has really gotten. But our exiled spirits can tell..."
Martin Prechtel (1998)"The clock is no longer just ticking – it’s ringing an alarm, and if we don’t listen the consequences for people and biodiversity will be catastrophic.”
Dr. Fred Boltz, Conservation International (2009)Latest News
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Tuesday 14th June 2022
It has been brought to my notice that the article by me about the Glaucous Macaw published in the Parrot Society UK magazine in 1992 was missing from the website page where it should have appeared. I have corrected this now and the article can be ... Read More »
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Tuesday 14th June 2022
I discovered by chance that most of the articles in the content section of the website were missing. I had the website updated recently and this appears to have occurred unintentionally. The company involved have now put the missing articles back ... Read More »
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Monday 13th June 2022
All eight Spix’s macaws are doing well after their release. They have been seen near the facility and that first night returned to the release aviary. The soft release allows the macaws to fly in and out freely.
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