Blue-throated Macaw chicks that successfully fledged from PBA-16 (E4). Photo: Cesar Flores – Asociación Armonía. Highlights from the 2019-2020 breeding season: 12 Blue-throated Macaw chicks fledged, tying last year’s record 9 Blue-throated Macaw breeding attempts, tying last year’s record 7 banded breeding adults, evidence that offspring from prior years’ nestboxes…
Breeding Blue-throated Macaws posed playfully on dead Moriche palm nest (Photo: Tjalle Boorsma – Asociacion Armonia). 2020 Blue-throated Macaw rainy season search expedition results: ⬥10 Blue-throated Macaw nests discovered in the northwestern subpopulation⬥3 unknown Blue-throated Macaw breeding sites discovered⬥Approximately 100 Blue-throated Macaws observed in Llanos de Moxos during rainy season…
BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK: Today, in an open letter to the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres, the leading global conservation partnership, BirdLife International, marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day by calling for the UN to take a bold and unprecedented step: declare a healthy natural environment a fundamental…
Community bird-based tourism has become relevant for the sustainability of the Red-fronted Macaw Community Reserve. While offering an opportunity where the tourist is supporting a good cause, the communities involved with the Reserve are becoming more conscientious protectors of the Red-fronted Macaw while benefiting from a diversified, more stable economy…
Press ReleaseDutch ecologist Tjalle Boorsma manages international conservation project for Blue-throated Macaw in Barba Azul Nature Reserve and beats more than 120 other contestants by winning the FFN Award 2020 Arnhem, 12 March 2020. Out of one hundred and twenty-four candidates from all over the world three inspiring natural leaders…
The Birds of Bolivia Field Guide is available for the first time ever for sale in the US and abroad. Printed in Bolivia in late 2016, the first edition of this field guide has always been a hard-to-get rarity due to the unfortunate issue of international logistics and associated high…
Laney Rickman Reserve in Bolivia protects the largest known breeding population of the Critically Endangered Blue-throated Macaw against poachers and habitat loss due to cattle ranching. In charge of Armonía´s reserve and the nestbox program is park ranger César Flores, once a cattle rancher, today, conservationist and protector of the…
For eight years, northern Blue-throated Macaws have never shown an iota of interest in nestboxes at Asociación Armonía’s Barba Azul Nature Reserve. What makes this more perplexing is that the southern Blue-throated Macaws love nestboxes. At the southern Laney Rickman Blue-throated Macaw Reserve, Blue-throats have used 26 nestboxes, fledging 81…
(Santa Cruz, Bolivia, June 28th 2019) A record number of Critically Endangered Blue-throated Macaw chicks fledged from nest boxes at Asociación Armonía’s Laney Rickman Blue-throated Macaw Reserve in Bolivia. Twelve chicks fledged from nest boxes during the 2018-2019 breeding season. This resulted in a total of 81 juvenile Blue-throated Macaws…
