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Anodorhynchus glaucus Vieillot, 1816

Glaucous macaw

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Ara glauca Vieillot, 1816

 

Conservation Status

Missing

Last record: 1951 (direct observation); 1960's (local report)

IUCN status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)

 

Recent reports of this species have been documented by (López-Lanús et al., 2009).

 

Distribution

Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay & Uruguay

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

[url=http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/naturalis/detail.php?lang=uk&id=49]RMNH 110.103[/url] (adult, skin)

[url=http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/naturalis/detail.php?lang=uk&id=49]RMNH 110.114[/url] (skeleton)

 

Media

Above: Cyanopsitta spixii (Spix's macaw) on the left, with Anodorhynchus glaucus (Glaucous macaw) on the right. Illustration originally published in (Russ, 1898). Source: Teixeira & Papavero, 2016.

 

Above: Glaucous macaw at Buenos Aires Zoo in 1936. Source: Teixeira & Papavero (2016)

 

Source: https://myparrots.gr/macaws/

 

References

Original scientific description:

(Vieillot) 1816 Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat.nouv.ed. 2 p.259


Other references:

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Alvarenga, Herculano. (2007). Anodorhynchus glaucus e A. leari (Psittaciformes, Psittacidae): osteologia, registros fósseis e antiga distribuição geográfica. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 15(3): 427-432.

ANÔNIMO. 1879. [Mr. Sclater exhibited a skin of Ara glauca]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, London, 1879: 551.

Begazo, A., Munn, C., Castelino, M. and Yamashita, C. (Undated) Humans caused the first proven extinction of a South American land bird: a post mortem for the Glaucous Macaw Anodorhynchus glaucus. First draft.

Bertonatti, Claudio. (2001). Los últimos días del guacamayo azul. Vida Silvestre July/August 2001, Nº 78, pages 44-50.

BirdLife International. (2000). Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge.

BirdLife International. (2012a). Anodorhynchus glaucus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 08 July 2012.

BirdLife International. (2012b). Species factsheet: Anodorhynchus glaucus. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 08/07/2012.

BirdLife International. 2019. Anodorhynchus glaucus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T22685527A154380861. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T22685527A154380861.en. Accessed on 06 July 2022.

Butchart, Stuart H. M., Lowe, Stephen, Martin, Rob W., Symes, Andy, Westrip, James R. S. and Wheatley, Hannah. (2018a). Which bird species have gone extinct? A novel quantitative classification approach. Biological Conservation 227: 9-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.08.014

Butchart, Stuart H. M., Stattersfield, A. J. and Brooks, T. M. (2006). Going or gone: defining ‘Possibly Extinct’ species to give a truer picture of recent extinctions. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 126A: 7-24.

Butchart, Stuart H. M., Wheatley, Hannah, Lowe, Stephen, Westrip, James R. S., Symes, Andy and Martin, Rob W. (2018b). Data for: Which bird species have gone extinct? A novel quantitative classification approach. Mendeley Data, V1, doi: 10.17632/vvjhpmyxb4.1

Collar, N. J., Gonzaga, L. P., Krabbe, N., Madroño Nieto, A., Naranjo, L. G., Parker, T. A. & Wege, D. C. (1992) Threatened birds of the Americas: the ICBP/IUCN Red Data Book. Cambridge, UK: International Council for Bird Preservation.

Fisher, Diana O. and Humphreys, Aelys M. (2024). Evidence for modern extinction in plants and animals. Biological Conservation 298: 110772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110772

Flower, H. J. (1879). Mr. Sclater exhibited a skin of Ara glauca (Vieill.) from Corrientes … Proceedings Zoological Society of London, London, 1879 (3): 551.

Forshaw, Joseph M. and Knight, Frank. (2017). Vanished and Vanishing Parrots: Profiling Extinct and Endangered Species. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing.

del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.

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López-Lanús, Bernabé, Laverde, Oscar, Omena jr., Reynier and Olarte, Luis G. (2009). Lack of evidence for the presence of macaws of the Anodorhynchus genus in the Colombian-Brazilian river basin of the Vaupés. Hornero 24(1): 37-41.

Martin, Thomas E., Bennett, Gareth C., Fairbairn, Andrew J. and Mooers, A. Ø. (2023). ‘Lost’ taxa and their conservation implications. Animal Conservation 26(1): 14-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12788 [Appendix S2 (1617 taxa not seen >10 years); Appendix S3 (562 taxa not seen >50 years)]

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https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/9197/anodorhynchus-glaucus-glaucous-macaw

 

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