Glaucous macaw | |
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Illustration by Bourjot Saint-Hilaire | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Psittaciformes |
Family: | Psittacidae |
Genus: | Anodorhynchus |
Species: | A. glaucus
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Binomial name | |
Anodorhynchus glaucus (Vieillot, 1816)
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The glaucous macaw (Anodorhynchus glaucus) is a critically endangered or possibly extinct species of large, blue and grey South American parrot, a member of a large group of neotropical parrots known as macaws. This macaw is closely related to Lear's macaw (A. leari) and the hyacinth macaw (A. hyacinthinus). In Guaraní, it is called guaa-obi after its vocalizations.