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The use of hand-raised psittacines for reintroduction: a case study of scarlet macaws (Ara macao) in Peru and Costa Rica [An article from: Biological Conservation]

Dave West — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:39:43 +0000

This digital document is a journal article from Biological Conservation, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Description: This study reports on three scarlet macaw (Ara macao) reintroduction projects using hand-raised birds in Peru and Costa Rica. The habitats at the release sites ranged from pristine tropical forest to forest fragments in an agricultural matrix. The combined first-year survival was 74% and the annual post first-year survival was 96%. Survival rates were very high despite a wide range in predator communities. Number of birds released explained 70% of the variation in survival with birds from larger releases having higher survival rates. Behavioral evidence suggests that birds established at the site facilitated survival of later releases. Breeding attempts were recorded at all three sites and hand-raised birds with wild mates successfully fledged young in Peru. Supplemental feeding post-release played an important role in keeping the birds near the release site and facilitating social interactions. This work shows that properly socialized hand-raised macaws can survive and breed in the wild but that ex-pets are not good release candidates.

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Macaws: Everything About Purchase, Management, Housing, Feeding, Health Care, and Breeding/a Complete Pet Owner’s Manual

Dave West — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:33:12 +0000

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The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman’s Fight to Save the World’s Most Beautiful Bird

Dave West — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:29:15 +0000

â��The first time we came here I didnâ��t know what to expect,â�� she told me as we paddled upstream. â��What we found just blew me away. Jaguars, pumas, river otters, howler monkeys. The place was like a Noahâ��s Ark for all the endangered species driven out of the rest of Central America. There was so much life! That expedition was when I first saw the macaws.â��As a young woman, Sharon Matola lived many lives. She was a mushroom expert, an Air Force survival specialist, and an Iowa housewife. She hopped freight trains for fun and starred as a tiger tamer in a traveling Mexican circus. Finally she found her one true calling: caring for orphaned animals at her own zoo in the Central American country of Belize. Beloved as â��the Zoo Ladyâ�� in her adopted land, Matola became one of Central Americaâ��s greatest wildlife defenders. And when powerful outside forces conspired with the local government to build a dam that would flood the nesting ground of the last scarlet macaws in Belize, Sharon Matola was drawn into the fight of her life. In The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw, award-winning author Bruce Barcott chronicles Sharon Matolaâ��s inspiring crusade to stop a multinational corporation in its tracks. Ferocious in her passion, she and her confederatesâ��a ragtag army of courageous locals and eccentric expatriatesâ��endure slander and reprisals and take the fight to the courtroom and the boardroom, from local village streets to protests around the world. As the dramatic story unfolds, Barcott addresses the realities of economic survival in Third World countries, explores the tension between environmental conservation and human development, and puts a human face on the battle over globalization. In this marvelous and spirited book, Barcott shows us how one unwavering woman risked her life to save the most beautiful bird in the world. "Barcottâ��s compelling narrative is suspenseful right up to the last moment." â��Publisher's Weekly"An engrossing but sad account of a brave and quirky champion of nature."â��Kirkusâ��â�¦A riveting account of one womanâ��s fight to save one of the last bastions of an endangered Species. . . Barcott writes of international politics, ecology and endangered species, and human relations with equal facility. This real page-turner of narrative nonfiction is hard to put down.â��â��Booklist

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Macaws

Dave West — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:26:56 +0000

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The Large Macaws: Their Care, Breeding, and Conservation

Dave West — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:30:05 +0000

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