BLUE AND YELLOW MACAW

                                                                                                                                         BLUE AND YELLOW MACAW                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Blue and Yellow Macaw is a kind of parrot that has brightly colored yellow and blue feathers. They are also known as blue and gold macaw. Since the wings are so beautiful and attractive, these birds are better known as Ara ararauna, which is also their scientific name. The upper part of the body is all blue and the under part is yellow or golden in color. Right above, on their head, there is a little touch of green color as well. The faces of these birds are white in appearance with jet black beaks pointing forward. These birds are really appealing and can be great pets for humans. They measure almost three to four pounds in their body weight.

Blue and Yellow Macaw Diet

When you talk of their diet, the macaws are fond of seeds, fruits, nuts, leaves, flowers, chocolates, cherries, avocados, caffeine, and so on.
They make use of their black beaks to eat the already opened nuts and dried fruits. Besides the pet macaws, the birds living in the wild are the main source of dispersing seeds of different fruits and are considered a helpful creature in growing various fruit trees in the forest.

Reproduction

The baby of blue and yellow macaw lives with parents till it is grown up enough to live on its own. These birds have a very long life under healthy and favorable environments, that is, they can live for eighty years at maximum. These birds like to make their homes in the trees that are reverberant.

Behavior

They not only live in groups but also accompany one another while searching for food. This behavior shows their united and friendly nature.

Matting Patterns

These birds are famous for mating for life. The individuals that are supposed to mate, usually, stay very close to each other while flying in a flock or a group. The female macaw lays two or more eggs at a time that are then looked after by the male macaw. It takes almost more than twenty days for the eggs to get hatched. The baby macaws are very weak when they are born. It is the parents that decide which babies are stronger than the others and they nurture only the stronger ones. When the baby macaws are four years old, they are considered old enough to live on their own and are allowed to start their own family.