Green Wing Macaw - red and green macaw as Pets Australia

Also named as the Greenwing Macaw,the red and blue macaw... The red and green macaw is one of the largest of the macaw species growing up to 60 cm in length from beak to tail feather tips. The second largest of the macaw species only the Hyacinth macaw is larger. Native to much of South America they have become popular pets throughout the world.

Colour

Red and green macaws display a body of brilliant bright red feathers with wings trimmed in bands of green and blue. Feet and legs are a deep grey, beaks are horn coloured with the lower mandible being black, they exhibit the classic bare macaw eye patches on their face.

Temperament and Personality
red and green macaws are incredibly affectionate and rarely aggressive or prone to disciplining their owners. They have extremely sweet disposition is a very social and require a great deal of attention and bonding time. This is not a bird to buy and live in a cage this is a bird that is going to want to be involved in almost all aspects of your life.

Average Lifespan:
assuming they are provided with the correct diet, exercise and physical and mental stimulation expect your leading green macaw to live at least 50 years but individuals have been known to live almost double this long.

Feed requirements
the pet shop should have the macaw specific feed that will do will contain most of their dietary requirements. There should be supplemented with a variety of fresh fruit and vegetables.

Exercising your Greenwing Macaw
Green Wing macaws are not as active as many other large parrots and they still require lots of physical and mental stimulation. 2 to 3 hours of supervised out of cage time daily will ensure good wind strength strong bones and mentally sound or call

Anything to note before buying?
Whilst they are not the potentially all day screechers that cockatoos can tend to be, they have at times been nicknamed the yoga bird due to their screeching salute to the sun in the mornings!

In the wild are social birds in small flocks of six-day individuals so when you bring in a macaw into your home understand, but you need to provide to this flock environment. Effectively you and your family become the flock in your green ring macaw will seek to interact with all you.

Red and green macaws and love to chew so all out of cage time should be well supervised. Make sure they have plenty of toys outside the cage noisy Toys, colourful toys that are funded through all your wedding ring macaw will make their own toys often out of door frames computer cords and other items you'd prefer remained intact.

Red and green macaws are large and long lived birds, they are relatively expensive to keep it high feed and dictionary bills, they require a large cage and a great deal of your time. Please consider these things when deciding if this bird is right as a pet you.