Blue-and-yellow Macaw

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When to see the Blue-and-yellow Macaw

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Blue-and-yellow Macaw

The map shades 18 countries with regular records, and 15 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in United States, Argentina, Taiwan, Spain, Australia, Germany, United Kingdom, Hong Kong SAR China, France, Portugal, Antigua & Barbuda, Grenada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Indonesia, Thailand.

About the Blue-and-yellow Macaw

The blue-and-yellow macaw, also known as the blue-and-gold macaw, is a large Neotropical parrot with a mostly blue dorsum, light yellow/orange venter, and gradient hues of green on top of its head. It is a member of the large group of neotropical parrots known as macaws. It inhabits forest, woodland, and savannah of tropical Central and South America, as well as the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean. They are popular in aviculture because of their striking color, ability to talk, ready availability in the marketplace, and close bonding to humans.

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Easily confused with

Chestnut-fronted MacawAra severusThe chestnut-fronted or severe macaw is mostly green in colour with patches of red and blue on the wings. Scarlet MacawAra macaoIt is about 84 centimeters (33 in) long, of which more than half is the pointed, graduated tail typical of all macaws, though the scarlet macaw has a larger percentage of tail than the other large macaws. Red-and-green MacawAra chloropterusThe green-winged macaw can be readily distinguished from the scarlet macaw.

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