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The scarlet macaw population in Central America’s largest wilderness area had dwindled drastically. The Indigenous Miskito people stepped in to help save them. A scarlet macaw perches on a tree ...
Previous DNA analysis of the Chaco and Mimbres macaw remains found they were quite inbred, so the mysterious breeding center was probably quite small — could this be it? Multicolored scarlet ...
At first glance, the photo appears to depict a brilliantly-plumed Scarlet Macaw perched on a tree with the gal nowhere in sight. However, it turns out that Polly and the woman are one and the same.
She throws a towel over the female scarlet macaw inside, then reaches in and grabs one of the two chicks. Mama macaw squawks and shuffles out from beneath the towel. Hawkinson repeats the maneuver ...
Somewhere in the American Southwest or northern Mexico, there are probably the ruins of a scarlet macaw breeding operation dating to between 900 and 1200 C.E., according to a team of ...
A Multi-Platform Draft de novo Genome Assembly and Comparative Analysis for the Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao). PLoS ONE , 2013; 8 (5): e62415 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062415 Cite This Page : ...
One endangered parrot species just got a major boost: A whopping 20 scarlet macaw fledglings have now taken flight over the forests of Guatemala. Scarlet macaws, one of the world's largest parrot ...
Flickr/Nina Hale A remote northwestern corner of what is now New Mexico isn’t the first place you’d expect to find a scarlet macaw. But the scattered bones of these vibrantly plumed parrots ...
The scarlet macaw (Ara macao), with its iconic red, blue and yellow plumes, is the national bird of Honduras. It inhabits forests from northern Central America to the southern Amazon, but the ...