Hyacinth Macaw

• GeneralThe largest parrot in the world, at 1 m long; its bill opens whole palm nuts.
• 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.
• 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.
• It also depends on toucans, which disperse the seeds of the trees it later nests in, even though those same toucans are the main predators of its eggs.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Palm groves, the savannahs of the Pantanal, cerrado and gallery forest of central South America

Sexual maturity

7 years

Gestation / incubation

28 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

2 eggs

Sources consulted: https://www.iucnredlist.org/ | https://animaldiversity.org/ | https://es.wikipedia.org/

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.