Lears Macaw Conservation News!

[MotherlodeParrot]

Perhaps one day, but it would take many many years before that would even happen as low as their populations are.

There are listed at about 1,123 birds as the best estimate or about five hundred pairs. That is five hundred adult breeding pairs. Allow these Lears Macaws (Anodorhynchus leari) pairs five years to mature. If the lowest classification of Least Concern mark is a stable wild population of 3,000 or 4,000 Macaws. If there is enough habitat and people allow them to recover (no collecting), this population could recover optimistically in about one to two decades from these five hundred pairs produces 3 out of 5 chicks that live every 2 years. Legal managed quota collecting could theoretically start again. Bold statement I know. However ideally if trade started again most Lears Macaws for the hobby would come from captive bred sources or conservation programs that have for the most part completed there conservation jobs and possibly not even form wild populations. First things first this species has got to be delisted from a less threatened listing.

This is a theoretical model of what could happen.

 

[MotherlodeParrot]

Perhaps one day, but it would take many many years before that would even happen as low as their populations are.

There are listed at about 1,123 birds as the best estimate or about five hundred pairs. That is five hundred adult breeding pairs. Allow these Macaws pairs five years to mature. If the lowest classification of Least Concern mark is a population of 3,000 or 4,000 Macaws. If there is enough habitat and people allow them to recover (no collecting), this population could recover optimistically could recover in about one to two decades if these five hundred pairs produces 3 out of 5 chicks that live every 2 years. Legal managed quota collecting could theoretically start again. Bold statement I know. However ideally if trade started again most Macaws for the hobby would come from captive bred sources or conservation programs that have completed there conservation jobs. First things first this species has got to be delisted from a less threatened listing.
This is a theoretical model of what could happen.

A good reason to support Parrot conservation groups as there is the extremely outside prospects that there could be legal trade in these species again one day. Plus the main obvious noble reason of preserving these species from extinction. If you join a conservation society and conserve habitat there is watching the species in there natural habitat that in my opinion far trump's that of watching them in captivity.

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[MikeyTN]

I'm preparing myself to give up my Lesser Sulphur Crested Cockatoo, Dixie, for the cause to repopulate. As they're under critically endangered specie. I don't even know when the time comes if they would even accept her anyways, she's a old gal...lol....she's over 20+ years old....If I'm being asked to do so I will do it as much as it would make us sad to see her go. I need to do some research about it, it's been awhile since I looked that stuffs up....

 

[MotherlodeParrot]

I'm preparing myself to give up my Lesser Sulphur Crested Cockatoo, Dixie, for the cause to repopulate. As they're under critically endangered specie. I don't even know when the time comes if they would even accept her anyways, she's a old gal...lol....she's over 20+ years old....If I'm being asked to do so I will do it as much as it would make us sad to see her go. I need to do some research about it, it's been awhile since I looked that stuffs up....

That species is having the same problems Lears and many other Parrots used to and some still have. To the best of my knowledge that species population is currently experiencing severely decreasing wild population because of non sustainable collecting (sometimes call rape and pillage collecting because of how destructive it can be to wild populations) of these birds from their native habitat. I'm not totally antiquated with parrot breeding however if parrot lovers would look to buy captive bred Sulphur Crested Cockatoos first not wild parrots that ideal would take a lot of pressure off of wild populations as this problem would be greatly avoided or even solved. The Lears Macaw population has been on the increase.