Ara is a vernacular Nom given the largest members of Psittacinae . They carry a plumage highly coloured, generally with dominant red or green, a long tail and a powerful nozzle. They live in tropical America. Sought for their colors chatoyantes and their aptitude for “speaking” like much other Psittacinae , the macaws are threatened of extinction in a wild state. A species, the Macaw of Spix, even disappeared in nature. The only specimens living at present are in captivity. In nature, the macaws nourish themselves in bands.

Taxonomy

Under French name Ara is gathered 6 kinds close to néotropicaux parrots:
  • Anodorynchus , kind comprising 3 species with the blue plumage:
* Macaw Hyacinthe - Anodorhynchus hyacintinus (Latham)
* Macaw of Lear or Macaw cobalt - Anodorhynchus leari (Bonaparte)
* glaucous Macaw - Anodorhynchus glaucus (Old-fashioned)
  • Cyanopsitta , This kind is monospecific: Macaw of Spix Cyanospitta spixii , extinct in nature.
  • Macaw , This kind Macaw , created by Lacépède, comprises species of Perroquet S of size ranging between 30 and 90 cm:
* blue Macaw or Macaw ararauna or blue Macaw and yellow - Macaw ararauna (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Macaw with blue throat or Macaw canindé - Macaw glaucogularis Dabbene, 1921 or Macaw caninde
* military Macaw - Macaw militaris (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Macaw of Buffon - Macaw ambigua (Bechstein, 1811)
* red Macaw or Macaw macao - Macaw macao (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Macaw chloroptère or Macaw with green wings - Ara will chloroptera Gray, 1859
* Ara with red face or Ara of Lafresnaye - Ara rubrogenys Lafresnaye, 1847
* severe Ara or green Ara - Ara will severa (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Orthopsittaca
* Ara macavouanne - Orthopsittaca manilata (Boddaert, 1783)
  • Propyrrhura
* Ara of Coulon - Propyrrhura couloni (Sclater, 1876)
* Ara of Illiger - Propyrrhura maracana (Old-fashioned, 1816)
* Macaw with yellow collar - Propyrrhura auricollis (Cassin, 1853)
  • Diopsittaca
* noble Macaw - Diopsittaca nobilis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Breeding

In captivity, the macaws raised with hand (EAM), of breeding thus, are very intelligent birds, being able to speak, and very attaching. However, the power of their cries and their great need for space makes their maintenance difficult. Certain macaws are placed under the Arrêté Guyana, and under the Convention of Washington. It is thus necessary in France, being capacitaire and to make sure of their source. Character question, in fact the araraunas are more “the players”, the chloroptères are calmer. While growing, some can become characterial, the other exclusive ones and extremely attached to their owner. The macaws living 75 years sometimes or even more, the decision of “to adopt” one is not to take with light, on the one hand because of time that one must devote to him, on the other hand with causes of the threats which weigh on the natural populations. The Ara Hyacinthe ( Anodorynchus hyacinthinus ) is as for him largest representing group and, except the Ara of Spix, more threatened. Indeed, this bird is negotiated in the neighborhoods of 10.000-15 000 euros.

Geographical distribution

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