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macaw

[ UK /mˈækɔː/ ]
[ US /məˈkɔ/ ]
NOUN
  1. long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central America and South America; among the largest and showiest of parrots

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  • Active fast flying lorikeets and big birds such as cockatoos and macaws should be in a large flight aviary.
  • Macaws, owls, monkeys and agouti were in cages draped in foliage - a sort of home away from home - and watched closely by officials of the Emperor Valley Zoo.
  • For rain forests, I hope to be a grandfather that can walk in the rainforest with his grandson or daughter and tell him, "Well, this macaw nest on this shihuahuaco tree here, it's exactly the same way I remember it 20 or 40 or 60 years ago, and it's still producing chicks every year. Wendy Diamond: In The Jungle With PeruNature's Kurt Holle
  • The CSNR is known to contain more than 400 of Suriname's known bird species, including Scarlet, Red-and-Green and Blue-and-Gold Macaws, (Ara macao, Ara chloroptera, Ara ararauna); Great Tinamou (Tinamus major), Black Curassow (Crax alector) the Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock (Rupicola rupicola) and the Harpy Eagle. Central Suriname Nature Reserve, Suriname
  • The park spreads out behind the mouth of the river, where each day at twilight a flood of scarlet macaws migrates from the tropical forest to the mangrove swamps.
  • But American doctors whose patients run afoul of a duck, macaw, parrot, goose, turkey or chicken will be able to select from nine codes for each animal, notes George Alex, an official at the Advisory Board Co., a health-care research firm. Walked Into a Lamppost? Hurt While Crocheting? Help Is on the Way
  • Like all parrots, military macaws like to climb.
  • What, if any, relationship the macaws had with buriti palms was not obvious: there didn't seem to be any. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
  • Bird watchers are drawn from all over the world in search of species such as parrots, parakeets, hyacinth macaws, and wood storks.
  • He parked his car a few yards in front of Macawber, donned a light windproof jacket and half-length gumboots and wandered off towards the sea.
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