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Macaws are the largest of all parrots.
This environment also has the widest variety of wildlife, such as macaws, parrots, quetzals, hummingbirds, iguanas, and various kinds of snakes.
Some of the country's most notable avian species include the resplendent quetzal, scarlet macaw, three-wattled bellbird, bare-necked umbrellabird, and the keel-billed toucan.
Along the walls were glass cages holding live cockatoos, macaws, seagulls, pigeons, and parrots.
According to locals the wild population of the blue-throated macaw in the 1980s was thought to number 500-1000 individuals.
Sixty of the species exhibited here are in danger of extinction, including the jaguar, the ocelot, the macaw, the quetzal and howler monkey.
With a healthy macaw population, such events could have been beneficial by creating suitable habitat.
The bird had a very large beak, comparable in size to that of the hyacinth macaw, which would have enabled it to crack hard seeds.
The zoo currently specializes in eight worlds of animals: cougars, lemurs, cranes, reindeer, macaws, wallabies, ratites, camelids.
