Blue & Gold Macaw

When you come to Malacca Zoo, you will be greated by these 2 Blue and Gold Macaws.
This Macaws was largerly found in Brazil but it is gradually disappearing from the edges of its range due to trapping for the caged bird trade and loss of habitat. It disappeared fom most of South East Brazil in the 1960s and the Nariva Swamp, Trinidad in the 1980s.

Thousands have been exported over the years: 18,000 from Bolivia in 4 from 1981 -1984, 2,000 a year from Guyana until 1993, while it has virtually disappeared from the Orinoco Delta, French Guiana and Surinam.