All The Amazing Secrets Of The Macaw Parrot December 5, 2006
Posted by Andrew in : Articles, Macaw , trackbackBy Dane J Stanton
The macaw parrot is a type of parrot that originates from South America and Africa. There are many different types of macaws and two of the most popular are the Catalina macaw parrot and the blue and yellow macaw parrot. Many people will recognize the macaw from pirate movies as being the parrot that sits on the shoulder of the captain. They were of course used by sailors back in those days for sailors who could not speak. They used to train the macaw parrot to speak for them.
The lifespan of the macaw parrot ranges from 15 to 30 years depending on how well looked after they are. There is lots you can do to make sure your macaw parrot will live for longer and one of the most important things you can do as an owner is to make sure your macaw is consistently being shown attention. Parrots hate nothing more than to be bored and being bored usually decreases their lifespan.
As the macaw parrot is a wild animal that came from the forests of Africa and South America, they must be specially treated. Therefore only trained experts should own a macaw because it takes a lot of effort to maintain these beautiful creatures. One of the things owners use to keep their macaws from boredom is to teach them how to talk. Many people don’t realize that the macaw is an amazing talker. Expert trainers are able to teach their macaw parrot to speak several different phrases and words.
Another thing that trainers like to do to keep their macaw parrots happy is to teach them tricks. These tricks include anything from card tricks to ball games. They are amazing thinkers and have the capacity to solve even the most challenging of problems. Next time you visit the local wildlife reserve and they have a macaw parrot as a part of their wildlife, ask the trainers to show you some of the tricks they have taught their parrots. This will give you a good opportunity to learn many things for when you perhaps decide to get your own macaw parrot one day.
So there it is, the macaw parrot in a nutshell. If you are thinking about getting your own macaw one day than I suggest you spend a lot of time reading and learning all the different training methods involved with this wonderful creatures. There are a myriad of books and resources out there, just make sure you take in the right information and filter out all the jargon.
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I agree that the Macaw Parrot is one amazing bird. With a little love and some general patience your Macaw can be trained to do amazing things. Having a happy home has great benefits to a happy bird. Their environment and the habitat that you provide them greatly increases the lifespan and the general health of your bird.
Training your Macaw or any other type of bird has big rewards as you build a long friendship full of respect and love.
Macaws are beautiful birds. However we must be mindful of where these birds come from and their conservation status.
The Blue and Gold Macaw is now extinct in the Aripo Savannahs of Trinidad. By some stroke of luck, the Red and Green Macaw population survived and took over their niche; so the disruption of the ecosystem was not that horrific. The Emperor Valley Zoo is trying to conduct conservation projects to reintroduce these marvellous birds in their natural habitat.
Poaching is an extremely hard problem to eliminate and illegal bird trafficking hurts the conservation status of many birds - and the birds themselves. Many die on the way to their final destination.
Macaws and parrots are intelligent animals and great pets (as I own an Amazon) - but we must all bear in mind what these birds went through to reach our homes. Therefore we must love our birds and keep their best interest at heart.