On a flight from Canada, eight blue-bearded macaws arrived at El Alto airport Wednesday to be taken to their natural habitat in the Bolivian Amazon.
Blue-bearded macaws are critically endangered in Bolivia and around the world and “a population of around 300 macaws is estimated,” reported Deputy Minister of Environment and Biodiversity Magin Herrera López , during the press conference during which he showed the birds in their cage at the airport.
Macaws measure about 85 centimeters and have their orange chest adorned with a sort of blue beard, as well as their wing feathers and a black beak.
It is expected that in the next few hours, by another flight, they will arrive in the Amazonian plain of Beni, in the north of Bolivia, where they will be quarantined until they are transferred to a conservation center for these birds, said Rafael Monzón, a biologist at the Conservation Foundation. Parrots Bolivia, at Associated Press.
The repatriation took place through government and organizational coordination and another 16 such birds are expected to arrive from the United States and eight from England. The parabas were in a zoo in Canada and as they are endemic to Bolivia, their return to the country was facilitated.
These birds are monogamous and their reproduction is minimal, so they will need care and support, explained Herrera López.
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