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Post by AcaciaWattle on Apr 18, 2005 12:24:40 GMT 10
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Post by jeremy on Apr 18, 2005 13:34:30 GMT 10
i always liked the Hyacinth Macaw
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Post by AcaciaWattle on Apr 18, 2005 14:45:31 GMT 10
Did you know that the Hyacinth is the largest of the macaw species? I learn't that!!! ;D   |
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Post by jeremy on Apr 18, 2005 17:51:13 GMT 10
yes i knew that, it is also the rarest. The price is a good indicator, i have been onto a lot of american sites and they sell Blue and Gold MAcaws for about $1000 but the Hyacinth's are $9000 it makes you think how much the Hyacinth is worth in Australia  |
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Post by AcaciaWattle on Apr 18, 2005 20:42:28 GMT 10
They would be priceless, as far as I know there are none available in AUS
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Post by Milly on Jun 23, 2005 8:44:05 GMT 10
They are really adorable! I didn't have a chance to see this blue beauty but comparing to the scarlet macaw which is a very, very big bird, I can't imagine any parrot bigger than that! Today I visited local ZOO (I'am currently on holiday overseas, in Europe) and saw a few pairs of scarlet and blue and yellow macaws, all grown up birds. I mean, they are large! I saw above links while browsing net too (thanks God there is Google!  ). Well, in US they have many sorts of parrots and in Europe too, at more afordable prices than Down Under BUT! Just not being able to afford e.g. one Timneh grey or Vosmaeri Eclectus  doesn't make me that unhappy. How many Americans would like to have galahs instead of pigeons flying around?? ;D Instead, they have to pay $1650 or more for a h/r baby... Still, the prices for some breeds and tough quarantine law implemented in Australia make me remember how far we are and how much more some things are complicated here  than somewhere else in the world... |
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Post by courtzrocks on Mar 4, 2008 16:21:10 GMT 10
Hy's (not that they are really kept here) go for $50,000-$120,000!!!! Other macs usually start from $8,000 but there have been some as low as $6,000 around. My dream bird is the hyacinth macaw and yes...probably just going to be a dream.
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Post by vankarhi on Mar 4, 2008 16:47:37 GMT 10
I think we have had this conversation before........oh well...........they are a nice looking bird. I love the colour biue, but to feed them would be so hard and so expensive..........just like the bird is .........expensive ;D
you know I think my dream bird would be a blue alex........or even a blue ekkie, there have been mutations of blue ekkies and they look very different.
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Post by courtzrocks on Mar 5, 2008 10:00:56 GMT 10
I love the toco toucans and the hornbills too.
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Post by nurse01 on Mar 8, 2008 13:47:20 GMT 10
They are the sweetest, kindest, more affectionate birds I have ever met! Well the one I've nursed was. We had one at the clinic I was working at in the states for a month. He was beautiful! He didn't say boo all day either from memory- maybe because he was sick though.
Can you get them here in Aus?
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Post by zooyouthben on Mar 8, 2008 17:40:10 GMT 10
NO!
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Post by clara on Mar 9, 2008 2:48:45 GMT 10
Superb bird, and i have the chance to see them in a big hornithologic zoo, their beck is very big Amicalement. |
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Post by courtzrocks on Mar 11, 2008 13:33:47 GMT 10
They hy isnt the rarest though, the the Lear's macaw and spix macaw are more rare..spix is rarest and i think may be known to be extinct in the wild??
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). Well, in US they have many sorts of parrots and in Europe too, at more afordable prices than Down Under BUT! Just not being able to afford e.g. one Timneh grey or Vosmaeri Eclectus 
doesn't make me that unhappy. How many Americans would like to have galahs instead of pigeons flying around?? ;D Instead, they have to pay $1650 or more for a h/r baby...
than somewhere else in the world...
