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Severe macaw (captive)
One of the reasons I have been so quiet around JD recently. This lovely bird spent 22 years of its life in a cage as someones pet. When they could no longer look after it, we opted to take it on an give it a new life. It has been a long and slow process of acclimatisation but he is now in a one acre aviary where he can learn to stretch his wings. He still lacks confidence and even though he can fly well I often find myself up a ladder rescuing him from palm trees. I am sure though that pretty soon he will be soaring around with the rest of the macaws, doing what parrots are supposed to do. I live for that day!
The chestnut-fronted macaw or severe macaw is one of the largest of the mini-macaws. It reaches a size of around 45 cm of which around half is the length of the tail. They can be found over a large part of Northern South America from Panama south into Amazonian Brazil and central Bolivia. Their lifespan is listed as anything from 30 to 80 years of age.
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