Red Bellied Macaw Parrots For Sale

Description

This Red-Bellied Macaw was described by the French polymath Georges Louis Leclere, Comte de Buffon  in 1780 in his Histoire , Naturelle des Oiseaux from a specimen collected in Cayenne, French Guiana Cayenne,  This bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by Francois Nicolas Martinet  in the Planches Enluminées  D’Histoire  Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme Louis Daubenton  to accompany Buffon’s text. Neither the plate caption nor Buffon’s description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the Binomial name Psittacus Manilatus  in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. The red-bellied macaw is now the only species placed in the Genus  Orthopsittaca that was introduced by the American ornithologist Robert Ridgway  in 1912.  The species is monotypic .The generic name combines the Ancient Greek  orthos meaning straight and psittakē meaning  parrot. The specific epithet combines the Latin manus meaning hand and latus meaning broad  or  wide.

 

The red-bellied macaw parrot is medium-sized, about 300 g (11 oz) in weight and about 46 cm (18 in) in length including its long pointed tail. The plumage is mostly green; the cere  and much of the face are covered with bare mustard-yellow skin, and the irises are dark brown. The forehead is bluish. The chin, throat and upper chest are greyish with some green scalloping, and the lower abdomen (belly) has a large maroon patch. The tail is long and tapered. The underwings and under tail are dull olive yellow. Adults have dark-grey beaks. The legs and feet are dark grey. In common with other parrots, they have zygodactyl  feet, two toes pointing forward and two backward. Males and females have identical plumage, but males are usually larger and have larger heads. Juveniles are duller in colour than adults and have a grey beak with a conspicuous white mid-line stripe running along the length of the culmen  (top of the upper beak).  Th Spix’s Macaw is the only other macaw in which juveniles have a similar white culmen.

 

Distribution and habitat

This red-bellied macaw has an extremely large range throughout the Amazon Basin of the North Region Of Brazil,  except in the northwest quadrant centered on a large region of the Rio Negro  flowing from Colombia-Venezuela. It ranges through the Guianas  including the Guiana Highlands  into eastern Venezuela, the lower Orinoco River  Basin and across to the island of Trinidad.

Its southern limit in Brazil is the south-central and northwestern cerrado bordering the Amazon Basin.

 

Behaviour

 

The Red-bellied macaws make reedy, high-pitched screams. They roost communally in the moriche palms, and large numbers can be seen at the roost sites at dawn and dusk; (see crepuscular). They are choose large stands of these palms that have an overabundance of woodpecker holes as roosting sites. They sleep communally in these groups of hollows. Depending on the size of the hollow, between five and 10 birds sleep together. As dusk approaches, they all pile into these dormitories and sleep shoulder to shoulder.

 

Breeding

 

The Red-bellied macaws nest in cavities of dead moriche palm trees. There are usually two to four white eggs in a clutch. The female incubates the eggs for about 27 days, and the chicks fledge from the nest about 77 days after hatching. Juveniles reach sexual maturity in 2–3 years.

 

Food and feeding

 

The Red-bellied macaws  diet consists almost exclusively of the fruit and seeds of the moriche palm  and the Caribean royal palm (in Trinidad),  which are 100% carbohydrate, 0% fat citation needed  and very high in beta-carotene.

 

Conservation status

 

The Red-bellied macaws are listed as least concern by the IUCN. Population numbers have not been estimated, but wild populations seem to be declining.

 

Aviculture

 

This  is extremely difficult keep these birds alive in captivity, because of their high strung personality, and low fat and high carbohydrate diet. Export/Import for the pet trade often results in 100% mortality. Captive-bred chicks have a low survival rate.

Because of lack of commercial availability of Moriche palm  nuts, shelled unsalted peanuts have been used as a staple in the diet of captive birds. They should not be fed commercial bird seed, especially fatty seed like Sunflower.

Parrot breeders, successfully devised feeding and housing methods which would keep wild-caught red-bellied macaws alive in captivity, after observing the parrots wild behaviors in Guyana. However, they  decided to keep their method a secret for many years, as they  did not wish to be responsible for restarting the trade in wild-caught macaws from the area, which previous to this had significantly reduced due to the high mortality rates, and therefore lack of commercial viability of trade in the species.

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*DNA test
*CITES certificate
*Current veterinary certificate
*Health certificate
*Hatching Certificate
*Care Sheet/Fact Sheet
*Diet Sheet

Banded: Yes

Age : 2 Years

DNA Sex: Females

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