Anodorhynchus glaucus (Glaucous Macaw)

[another specialist]

Schouten has done other works which are not in the book

[sebbe67]

anotherspecialist said:

Schouten has done other works which are not in the book

Yes, as Frank say the painter has painted a serie of extinct animals, not all of them are illustrated in the book A Gap in nature but they are still treated as a part of that serie.

[Carlos]

And where can they be seen?

[another specialist]

carlos said:

And where can they be seen?

Peter Schouten studio

This is his own website but the gallery photos do change from time to time.

www.studioschouten.com.au/index.asp

[sebbe67]

carlos said:

And where can they be seen?

I found it here www.andrewisles.com/AndrewIsles/

[another specialist]

thanks for link sebbe67

[RSN]

Thanks for the explanation! Excellent sites!

[Carlos]

Won-der-ful link, Thanks!!!!

[another specialist]

Glaucous Macaw
Anodorhynchus glaucus
Critically Endangered. Old records of this species
cover a wide area of northern Argentina, southern
Paraguay, north-east Uruguay and Brazil, from
Paraná state southwards, but are mostly clustered
along the middle reaches of the major rivers (the
Uruguay, Paraná and Paraguay) and adjacent
areas, especially in Corrientes province,
Argentina. It was rare even before the mid 19th
century and there were only two reasonably
convincing reports in the 20th century, one a
direct observation in Uruguay in 1951, and
another based on local reports in Paraná in the
early 1960s15. A recent, thorough survey of
Corrientes (Argentina) and Rio Grande do Sul
(Brazil) found no evidence of its presence and
concluded that it had become extinct in the first
half of the 20th century. Whilst it has been
generally treated as extinct, persistent rumours of
recent sightings, local reports and birds in trade
indicate that a few birds may survive. Anyone with
an urge to track down the Glaucous Macaw is best
advised to seek out suitable—and ideally remote—
savanna habitats with fruiting palms (on which the
species fed) and nearby cliffs (where it roosted and
nested). The main food plant was probably the
Yatay Palm Butia yatay, so any regions where this
is a dominant feature should be identified, perhaps
through remote sensing techniques, and surveyed.
As with Spix’s Macaw, any sightings of this species
should be reported with extreme discretion,
involving in the first instance a strictly confidential
communication to BirdLife International.

www.neomorphus.com/work/JPDF/lostandfound.pdf

[RSN]

2. Anodorhynchus glaucus
3. Anodorhynchus leari

J.M.Forshaw & W.T.Cooper (1977). Parrots of the World. T.F.H. Pub., Inc. Neptune, N.J., USA. p. 355

[RSN]

It is confusing me... it had the head with these grey patches like that is show in the stuffed specimens or it is almost entire blue with green reflections like the pic in BirdLife or in that of the same painter in Gapi in Nature?

[another specialist]

www.scribd.com/doc/2621714/Mysterious-CreaturesA-Guide-To-Cryptozoology

[another specialist]

Tuesday, 15th August 2006



I have just returned from attending this year's American Federation of Aviculture (AFA) convention in Dallas. There were a number of very interesting and informative presentations as well as excellent opportunity to network. While there I managed to visit the Dallas Zoo and the Dallas World Aquarium. The latter was particularly interesting, indeed amazing, because it is constructed within an old warehouse in the heart of downtown Dallas. I was shown round by the senior aviculturist, Josef Lindholm III, who gave two presentations at the convention on aracaris and cotingas. He had met some of the leading aviculturists of the past, including shortly before his death in 1985, Jean Delacours, who apparently in his early teens saw a Glaucous Macaw (Anodorhynchus glaucus) at the Jardin d'Acclimatation in Paris just over 100 years ago in the opening years of the 20th century. According to Josef he commented "It was quite ugly! - Too large a head, too short a tail, an unattractive colour... Not pretty at all... But it was the only one I saw in the world!" When I visited the museum at the Jardin D'Acclimatation towards the end of the 1980s I took a photo of the Glaucous Macaw specimen there being held alongside that of a Lear's Macaw.

While on the subject of the Glaucous Macaw, Carlos Bianchi, who works closely with IBAMA, the Brazilian government wildlife agency, on both the Lear's Macaw and Spix's Macaw programmes, mentioned in his presentation on the status and conservation of parrots in Brazil that this species had been declared extinct in the Brazilian Red List to be published later this year although the IUCN in their publication last year (2005) persisted in giving it a status of critical. The reason for this appears to be a number of unconfirmed reports of sightings as well as a comment by Fernando Costa Straube in his work on avifauna in the southeast region of the state of Parana [Contribuições ao conhecimento da avifauna da região sudoeste do estado do Paraná (Brasil)] published in 1988. He says that he was informed by local inhabitants that between 1961 and 1964 there were two species of macaw living along the margins of the river Iguaçu. One was red with blue wings, which he took to be the Green-winged Macaw (Ara chloroptera) and the other was more seldom, smaller, greenish-blue with yellow at the base of its bill. He then puts in brackets the name Anodorhynchus glaucus with a question mark.

This question mark has apparently been converted to recorded sightings by the experts at the IUCN. However, I do not believe these reports justify a belief in the species' continued existence. Two more expeditions have been mounted recently and have found no trace of the species. Reports such as that above are notoriously unreliable. I can remember being told by a rancher in the northern Pantanal eleven years ago that he had seen a small blue macaw in the area. When I showed him illustrations of the four blue macaws he pointed at the Spix's Macaw and insisted that was the bird. "Sky blue" he kept repeating. At the time we thought there was a remote possibility it might have been an escapee from a trafficker on his way to Paraguay - some eight years earlier three Spix's Macaws had been confiscated from a house in Asuncion. However, we soon came to the view that the rancher was just simply mistaken.

www.bluemacaws.org/new.htm

[another specialist]

Sunday, 3rd April 2005



I have just returned from Washington to see the latest addition to the family. My eldest son, a marine biologist, moved there last November with his family to work for NOAA. I took the Jack Russell terriers out for a walk after the long flight and heard the cuckoo in the woods. In previous years I have heard it first in early May and last year at the end of May, so this year it appears to be very early. The weather has been very strange recently. Only a couple of weeks ago we had snow and freezing temperatures. Today it was 15 C (59 F) and the hedgerows are full of singing birds. In Washington I experienced very heavy rain and thunder storms before my departure.

Although my trip was for two days only I did manage a brief visit to the specimen collection at the Smithsonian Institution. There I examined the three Glaucous Macaws (Anodorhynchus glaucus) collected by Cptn. Thomas Page during his expedition to Argentina and Paraguay from 1853 to 1856. When researching this now extinct macaw in 1992 I had not been able to find any reference to the Glaucous Macaw in his narrative of the expedition published in 1859 except in the list of perching birds in Appendix J, where it appears as Anodorhynchus cinereus. See footnote in my article in the Parrot Society magazine published in 1992

The date given for the collection of the macaws on the tags attached to the three specimens was 1st August 1854. On examining the text again today I discovered Page was exploring the Riachuelo river, a tributary of the Paraná just south of the Argentine city of Corrientes, at that time and indeed writes "I was fortunate in obtaining some rare birds........". The specimen marked A.cinereus also gives the location as Corrientes. It is easy to understand why Page described the macaws as "cinereus" The three specimens at the Smithsonian look very grey on the breast area in certain light - see image by clicking here.

www.bluemacaws.org/new.htm

[another specialist]

Genuine antique print of Macaws (Glaucous, Hyacinthine, Sever, from Parrots by Reichenow.

Information


Dr Anton Reichenow (1847 - 1941) was a German ornithologist. Reichenow worked at the Humboldt Museum from 1874 to 1921. He was an expert on African birds, making a collecting expedition to West Africa in 1872 and 1873. He was editor of the Journal für Ornithologie from 1894 to 1921.

These prints are from a work by Reichenow and were drawn by Gustav Mützel (1839-1893), the famous wild life artist. The parrots are organized on the prints by family, and illustrate all the species then known from Australia, New Guinea, Asia, Philippines, Africa and America.

Date


This print is from a limited edition facsimile of Reichenow' work and was made in Germany in the 1950s

www.finerareprints.com/print_detail.html?stock_no=15811

[another specialist]

Conservation Biology in Theory and Practice
By Graeme Caughley, Anne Gunn

[aquaeyes11010]

Is there a photograph anywhere of the Lear's macaw pair with the female being claimed to be a Glaucous? I googled "Harry Sisson glaucous macaw" and found only the articles referenced in this thread.

[Melanie]

Do you mean this one?

www.bluemacaws.org/images/blue135.jpg

[nebraskadog]

Some people see the Glaucus Macaw and Lear's Macaw as one and the same species.

One of Bellow and fossil finds of Herculano Alvarenga study that compares well with the distribution areas of the Lear's Macaw, is a result of broad consensus, including the measurements of both species to the conclusion that both species have only subspecies status. Because of the priority rule, the following new designations would accrue Anodorhynchus glaucus glaucus - the glaucus than nominate and Anodorhynchus leari for the Lear's Macaw.

But I do not think so because;

Azara (1802) was the first researcher who received the nutrition of the Glaucus Macaw, as he pointed out that beak and upper palate area were relatively soft and therefore the diet on fruits, seeds and dates must be limited.
Especially the Yatay nuts he needed. In contrast to the Lear's Macaw which is not picky about what had regard to food.

[RSN]

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