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The Blue-throated Macaw is endemic to a small area of north-central Bolivia known as Los Llanos de Moxos. The Blue-throated Macaw can live for more than 80 years! This bird is currently considered critically endangered. Recent estimates suggest that about 250 - 300 individuals remain in the wild.[2008] The Blue-throated Macaw weighs about 750 g (27 oz). It is about 85 cm (33 in) long including the length of its tail feathers. It has vivid colours with turquoise-blue wings and tail, and bright yellow underparts and blue undertail coverts. They reach sexual maturity at approximately 2 to 4 years of age. This species was unknown to aviculture until the 1970s and still today a limited number of ornithologists are unsure if it is truly a separate species, but rather a subspecies of the blue and gold macaw (Ara ararauna). They lay 2-3 eggs. Their eggs are incubated for about 29 days. Their chicks leave the nest in about 4 months. Their throat is blue and continuous with its blue cheeks. It has a large black bill. The adults have yellow irises and the juveniles have brown irises. In the wild the Blue-throated Macaw often competes for nesting-holes in trees with the Blue-and-yellow Macaw, large woodpeckers and toucans. |
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