Blue-and-yellow Macaw
Ara ararauna
Aves
UNCOMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 30-35 yrs
- Size
- Large
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Flock
- Biome
- Tropical rainforest
- Range
- South America
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Flock Safety
- Status
- Uncommon
About
A large, vivid macaw of South American tropical forests, with cobalt-blue upperparts and rich golden-yellow underparts visible from remarkable distances in flight. Like other macaws, it regularly visits riverbank clay licks to ingest mineral-rich earth that neutralises the toxins found in the wild seeds and unripe fruit it eats.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA few round white eggs are incubated deep in a tree cavity, the female rarely leaving until they hatch.
- 2.hatchlingA featherless hatchling is fed regurgitated food by both parents inside a tree cavity.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges with duller plumage than the adults, learning to crack seeds and to call.
- 4.adultFully grown with bright adult plumage.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- Family
- Psittacidae
- Genus
- Ara
- Species
- Ara ararauna