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Again, welcome! Iloveparrots (talk) 22:43, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

Hiya Iloveparrots, good someone thinks I'm constructive. It seems my new modem keeps on assigning me a new IP. Thanks for this template, I almost never sign in, but my name/user name is Leo Breman. I'm mostly interested in botany, but take on a bird/animal on occasion -I'm actually interested in the palm, but a bunch of info about it floating around on internet appears to be nonsense which was posted to the macaw article in 2002/4. I want to see what this new modem is doing, so this macaw article will likely get a bunch of different IPs in the recent edit history.

I wrote the great green macaw article a year or two back, as well, if you want to see something really long.

Regarding the age of 60: I'm highly sceptical. This species was first recognised in the mid-1970s, ergo, logically no extant bird could have reached an age of 50 as of now. In the 1980s there were only a few in captivity -likely poached from the newly discovered roosting site and bought by a US zoo (Busch Gardens/Seaworld), of these only two survived by the late-1990s, during which the rest of the origins of the modern captive population was poached and smuggled (to Britain, Singapore, and Qatar by way of Russia and Czechoslovakia). The two US birds were eventually repatriated to Brazil, where they had died by 2018, thus the oldest verified age is about 40 (they bred in 1983, so must have been born by at least 1981).

I'm currently expanding the section on feeding. Interesting stuff on how they rummage around through cow barf for food (vomitophagy?), and as to what that might mean from an evolutionary perspective. Cheers, Leo 2A02:A45D:25BD:1:85F0:D539:64E4:5134 (talk) 09:01, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

Hello Leo. Glad you're enjoying Wikipedia. I'm interested in parrots mainly myself, usually the pet ones, which is how I've primary experienced them.

I found another figure for the lifespan of the Lear's macaw from the Animal Ageing and Longevity Database - 38.3 years, which is much closer to your number.

I had assumed (from statements in the article that the bird had been seen in captivity prior to the discovery of its natural location) that there had been a few knocking around in zoos and aviaries for over a century. Back in the day it wasn't uncommon for shipments of parrots to have a nebulous origin (beyond "these came from the Amazon", or whatever). The trappers didn't tell the buyers where specifically the birds had come from, or no-one bothered to ask. --Iloveparrots (talk) 14:07, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

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