Maraca
Blue & Gold Macaw
Resident of The Landing Zone since August 2005
Maraca, a blue and gold macaw, was an egg when we first saw her in 2005. An owner offered to give her to us if she hatched and was OK. We came to pick her up when she was a month old, on a 120 degree day. She was dehydrated and her head drooped, she had no feathers, and two of her claws had been nipped off by the mother parrot. We didn’t think she’d live, but we fed her formula by Dixie cups every 3-4 hours and kept her in an incubator at 104 degrees – and she did very well! She knows how to say about 35 words but only when she feels like it. She likes to toss a ball or toy back and forth from the top of her cage, she plays peep-eye, and she loves to be read to and have her feet, under her wings and tummy scratched. She is very bossy – like she owns the place.
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