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104 Hyacinth macaw with Pink Ipê tree in background in Encontro das Águas State Park Photo by Giles Laurent🦜

Photo: Giles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesPsittaciformesPsittacidae
Birds

🦜Hyacinth Macaw

Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus (Latham, 1790)

Der Hyazinthara (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) ist ein in Südamerika endemischer Papagei aus der Gattung der Blauaras (Anodorhynchus). Mit bis zu 1,3 kg Gewicht und einer Länge von bis zu einem Meter ist der Hyazinthara der größte flugfähige Papagei der Welt. Auf der roten Liste gefährdeter Arten des IUCN wird der Hyazinthara bereits seit 2016 als „gefährdet“ geführt. Der Bestand erwachsener Hyazintharas lag damals bei weniger als 4300 Tieren. Die weltweit größte Population lebt im Biosphärenreservat Pantanal.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/47th of your weight
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
1.33 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
39 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Hyacinth Macaw

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1.33 kg
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 1.33 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.44 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.44 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.1 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.04 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
39 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Herbivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Forest
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Insessorial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
1.3 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Hyacinth Macaw yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPsittaciformes
  5. ›familyPsittacidae
  6. ›genusAnodorhynchus
  7. ›speciesAnodorhynchus hyacinthinus
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderParrots · Psittaciformes
  4. genusAnodorhynchus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderParrots · Psittaciformes
  11. genusAnodorhynchus
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In other languages
ara hyacintový (cs), guacamai jacint (ca), Hyacintara (da), Hyazinth-Ara (de), Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus (es), hyasinttiara (fi) … and 24 more languages
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104 Hyacinth macaw with Pink Ipê tree in background in Encontro das Águas State Park Photo by Giles Laurent017 Hyacinth macaw flying in Encontro das Águas State Park Photo by Giles Laurent007 Hyacinth macaw couple under Pink Ipê tree in Encontro das Águas State Park Photo by Giles Laurent
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