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Ara ararauna Luc Viatour🦜

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SpeciesPsittaciformesPsittacidae
Birds

🦜Blue-and-yellow Macaw

Ara ararauna (Linnaeus, 1758)

El guacamayo azul y amarillo (Ara ararauna)​es una especie de ave psitaciforme de la familia Psittacidae que es endémica de América del Sur. Su área de distribución comprende desde Panamá hasta el noreste de Argentina​​ pasando por toda la cuenca amazónica. Se los puede encontrar en su hábitat natural en los siguientes países: Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Perú, Brasil, Paraguay, Argentina y Bolivia, son aves ampliamente distribuidas en el continente sudamericano. En cautividad se reproducen fácilmente; en libertad viven en grupos de veinticinco a treinta ejemplares. Este guacamayo es apreciado como mascota, y por este mismo motivo su población salvaje decayó, sin embargo este guacamayo sigue clasificado como en preocupación menor.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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≈ 1/55th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
1.13 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
43 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Blue-and-yellow Macaw

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

Body mass
1.13 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

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

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
43 years
AnAge
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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
1.1 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 Blue-and-yellow Macaw yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPsittaciformes
  5. ›familyPsittacidae
  6. ›genusAra
  7. ›speciesAra ararauna
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderParrots · Psittaciformes
  4. genusAra
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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. genusAra
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ara ararauna (cs), Guacamai blau (ca), Blågul Ara (da), Gelbbrustara (de), Ara ararauna (es), sinikelta-ara (fi) … and 27 more languages

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