🦜Spix's Macaw
Spix's macaw, also known as the little blue macaw, or simply blue macaw, is a macaw species that was endemic to Brazil. It is a member of tribe Arini in the subfamily Arinae, part of the family Psittacidae. It was first described in 1638 by German naturalist Georg Marcgrave when he was working in Pernambuco in Dutch Brazil. It is named for German biologist Johann Baptist von Spix, who collected a specimen in 1819 on the bank of the São Francisco River near Juazeiro. This bird has been completely extirpated from its natural range, and following a several-year-long survey, the IUCN officially declared it extinct in the wild in 2019. However, after over 20 years of conservation efforts, 200 macaws have been bred from captive birds, and 52 individual birds have since been reintroduced into their natural environment in June 2022.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- Body mass
- 0.2 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 27 years
Extinct in the wild
Assessed Extinct in the Wild on the IUCN Red List, 2019. The only known survivors live in captivity or outside their natural range.
Everything we know about the Spix's Macaw
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.2 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 0.2 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.35 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.28 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.03 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.02 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan27 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Trophic levelHerbivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatForestAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleInsessorialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.2 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 Spix's Macaw yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderPsittaciformes
- ›familyPsittacidae
- ›genusCyanopsitta
- ›speciesCyanopsitta spixii
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderParrots · Psittaciformes
- genusCyanopsitta
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderParrots · Psittaciformes
- genusCyanopsitta
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