Name:
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Cherane Pefley
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Business:
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Heavenly Aviary
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Phone:
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772-234-4486
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Email:
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cherane@aol.com
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Date Received:
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6/28/2005
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Label#
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Species
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BirdID
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Sex
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1
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Blue-throated Macaw
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' 6-24-2005
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'Female
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Two day old BTM in the nest box ... parents looking and watching me
look closely to the right..the white is a drill hole through the plexiglass
and behind this you can see the baby. Look at that muscle on her head.
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CLOSED BANDED TODAY AND WILL BE MICROCHIPPED BY DR. BACKOS
featherless and now at November 17,2005
click image to view video of the juveniles
Last October 2004
COMMON NAME:
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blue-throated macaw, Caninde macaw (though this common name is associated with an inappropriate species classification - see 'GENUS SPECIES' below)
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KINGDOM:
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Animalia
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PHYLUM:
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Chordata
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CLASS:
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Aves
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ORDER:
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Psittaciformes
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FAMILY:
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Psittacidae (true parrots)
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GENUS SPECIES:
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Ara (macaw) glaucogularis [Some sources cite caninde, though this is likely an inappropriate translation of Felix de Azara's 1802-1805 species account. 'Caninde' references a specific Tupi-Guarani name for the blue & gold macaw, Ara ararauna. Azara's description likely references A. ararauna.
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Amos and Annie
Two months of diet and flying exercise. Lipomas and cists are not to be found on the male's body. Together taking off to fly back to their nest box.
Click image to read cherane's messages on BTM Group.