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Ara ararauna Luc Viatour🦜

Photo: Luc Viatour · CC BY 2.0

SpeciesPsittaciformesPsittacidae
Birds

🦜Blue-and-yellow Macaw

Ara ararauna (Linnaeus, 1758)

A arara-canindé (Ara ararauna, Linnaeus, 1758), também conhecida como arara-de-barriga-amarela, arari, arara-amarela, arara-azul-e-amarela, araraí e canindé, é uma das mais conhecidas representantes do gênero Ara, sendo uma das espécies emblemáticas do cerrado brasileiro e importante para muitas comunidades indígenas. É muito apreciada como animal de estimação. Ocorre da América Central ao Brasil, Bolívia e Paraguai.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
10
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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
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
43 years
AnAge
Details ↓

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
Details ↓

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.

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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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In other languages
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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