Species group · Birds

Macaws

WAnimals has 6 species of macaw, in the family Psittacidae.

6 species

1 family

20 countries

75 parks

All 6 species of macaws on WAnimals

Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.

2 Least Concern2 Vulnerable1 Critically Endangered1 Extinct in the Wild

3 species in this group are in a threatened category according to the IUCN.

Recorded in 20 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:

It pairs for life.
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It can live for over 40 years in the wild.
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It visits clay licks to neutralise the toxins in the seeds it eats.
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It eats clay from river banks, which lets it neutralise the toxins in the unripe seeds it swallows.
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The largest parrot in the world, at 1 m long; its bill opens whole palm nuts.
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Its bill exerts enough force to crack acuri and bocaiuva palm nuts, so hard that they withstand a vehicle driving over them: it is probably the most powerful bill of any bird.
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It depends on the cattle of the Pantanal: it can only open acuri nuts that have already passed through the digestive tract of cattle and tapirs, which strip away the outer pulp.
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Its survival depends on a single tree: the mountain almond provides it with both food and nest holes, and the logging of that timber species is the direct cause of its decline.