Wikipedia article of the day for April 9, 2018

The Wikipedia article of the day for April 9, 2018 is Lesser Antillean macaw.
The Lesser Antillean macaw (Ara guadeloupensis) was a parrot of the Guadeloupe islands. There are no conserved specimens, but this macaw is known from several contemporary accounts, and the bird is the subject of some illustrations. Austin Hobart Clark made a species description based on these accounts in 1905. A phalanx bone from the island of Marie-Galante confirmed the existence of a similar-sized macaw predating the arrival of humans, and was correlated with the Lesser Antillean macaw in 2015. According to contemporary descriptions, the body was red, the wings were red, blue and yellow, and the solid red tail feathers were between 38 and 51 cm (15 and 20 in) long; apart from the tail feathers and its smaller size, this description matches the scarlet macaw. These accounts also said that it ate fruit (including the poisonous manchineel), nested in trees and laid two eggs once or twice a year. Although it was said to be abundant in Guadeloupe, by 1760 it was becoming rare and was soon eradicated, probably by disease and hunting.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Most Popular Posts

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...

Labels

Video (782) Maps (595) Digg (426) Quote of the Day (422) Machines (415) Equipment (324) Machinery (324) Article of the day (253) Wikipedia (253) Quotes (211) Handbook (201) World's most (196) Gadgets (188) YouTube (118) Moving pictures (117) Large (107) Most (106) Big (105) DIY (85) Today's Quote (35) How to (22) Truck (20) Paper (15) Publication (15) Birds (14) Water Study (14) Follow us (12) Mining (9) Facts (8) World's largest (6) Animal (5) Aquarium (5) Craft (5) Fish (5) Flickr (5) Laser Engraving (5) Nature (5) Where? (5) Christmas (4) Google Plus (4) Guppy (4) Images (4) Join (4) Tips (4) Add photos (3) Animation (3) Benbox Laser Engraver (3) Blogging (3) Dictionary (3) FEL (3) Flickr group (3) Instructions (3) LHD (3) Online (3) Photos (3) Pictures (3) Rope shovel (3) Shovel (3) Snow (3) 2016 (2) Common blackbird (2) Days Of The Year (2) Europe (2) Excavator (2) Facebook (2) Flickr Groups (2) Google (2) Great tit (2) Groups (2) Load Haul Dump (2) Loader (2) Mouse (2) Outdoors (2) Pinterest (2) Population (2) Porcelain (2) Quarry (2) Real Time (2) Show Your Photos (2) Surface mining (2) Swan (2) Tractors (2) Twitter (2) Water (2) Winter (2) Wood (2) froth at the mouth (2) man down (2) 2017 (1) ASMRtist (1) Abandoned (1) Add Blog (1) Add URL (1) Album (1) Albums (1) Alerts (1) Android (1) Answers (1) Anthropocene (1) App (1) Article (1) Atom (1) Attic salt (1) Autonomous haul trucks (1) Benbox instructions (1) Bench (1) Blog This (1) Blogger Blog-This button for Google Chrome (1) Bolshevism (1) Brooklynite (1) Cambrian explosion (1) Camel (1) Catalog of Blogs (1) Chair (1) Cholesterol (1) Chrome (1) Climate (1) Collection of Blogs (1) Color (1) Construction (1) Delicious (1) Dictionaries (1) Do something Yourself (1) Drilling (1) E-Readers (1) Eating (1) Ecology (1) EleksMaker (1) Elysian (1) Email (1) Engraver (1) Engraving (1) Eurasian blue tit (1) Eurodeterrent (1) Everester (1) Eyes (1) Feed (1) FeedBurner (1) Feedly (1) Finland (1) Food (1) Fragile States Index (1) Front end loader (1) G Plus (1) G+ (1) Gaia (1) Gallery (1) Gardening (1) Google play (1) Great spotted woodpecker (1) Greece (1) Group (1) Guide (1) Hare (1) History (1) Homer nods (1) Homeric (1) How to Clean Up Laser Burnt Wood (1) Hydraulic excavator (1) Hydropower (1) Installing (1) Join Group (1) Kangaroo (1) Lake (1) Language (1) Largest (1) Leonardeschi (1) Lightning Maps (1) Limestone (1) Links (1) Lutheran (1) Mining trucks (1) Monorail (1) Montezuma's revenge (1) Moon (1) Männlein (1) Nadsat (1) National Miners Day (1) Overburden (1) Photosites (1) Pi Day (1) Pins (1) Print Screens (1) Proposal Day (1) Q&A (1) QWERTY (1) Questions (1) RSS (1) Railway (1) Random Facts (1) Random place on Earth (1) Records (1) Reference (1) Religion (1) Resting (1) Rigid trucks (1) River (1) Santa Tracker (1) Screenshot (1) Sea (1) Seismicity (1) Selling Photos Online (1) Shangri-La (1) Shih Tzu (1) Silver (1) Silver Clay (1) Simulation (1) Sinkhole (1) Skid Steer (1) Sky (1) Skynet (1) Snakes (1) Software (1) St. Stephen's Day (1) Steel facts (1) Stream (1) Stripping (1) Supermoon (1) T 16 (1) Top 10 (1) Train (1) Transportation (1) Trends (1) Trucks (1) Tumblr (1) Tunnel (1) Turkey (1) Twelfth Day (1) Underground (1) Underground mining (1) Vikings (1) Vision (1) Visualization (1) Vukovian (1) Water observation (1) Weebly (1) Wheel Loader (1) Wiktionary (1) Woodturning (1) Wordpress (1) World largest trucks (1) World's Tallest Trees (1) World's deepest (1) World's heaviest train (1) World's largest train (1) World's largest trucks (1) World's longest rail tunnels (1) World's longest railway tunnels (1) World's longest train (1) World's longest train tunnels (1) Yuletide (1) adermatoglyphia (1) adroit (1) afflatus (1) agonic (1) amateur hour (1) anecdata (1) angle parking (1) animadvert (1) apple of discord (1) armshouse (1) at one blast (1) avoid like the plague (1) aye-aye (1) bachelor's fare (1) backstretch (1) baker's dozen (1) bardo (1) beer o'clock (1) biennium (1) bleeding edge (1) blossom (1) blowhard (1) bokeh (1) bolt-on (1) bombast (1) bon mot (1) bork (1) braggart (1) breadbasket (1) broadcast (1) careworn (1) carious (1) carol (1) caveat (1) chairness (1) chthonic (1) clavicytherium (1) clerihew (1) cloud nine (1) cognate accusative (1) come together (1) community (1) consistent (1) contemporaneous (1) coo (1) creatify (1) cromulent (1) dabble (1) deep state (1) demulcent (1) derisively (1) desire line (1) detritivore (1) discophilia (1) disemvowel (1) distaff (1) dot matrix (1) down but not out (1) dragline excavator (1) drawing board (1) drop bear (1) eLearning (1) echelon (1) elevator pitch (1) emasculate (1) enhypostasia (1) ensete (1) etendue (1) eucatastrophe (1) evitable (1) exemplary (1) extremity (1) fester (1) filch (1) find oneself (1) fit as a fiddle (1) flerd (1) folding stuff (1) foolhardy (1) forlorn (1) frangible (1) fraudulence (1) from A to B (1) fust (1) gee-gee (1) genizah (1) gens (1) genticide (1) ghit (1) gillie (1) glaciology (1) glossolalia (1) glower (1) go it alone (1) greensand (1) grisly (1) gunmetal (1) gunzel (1) ha-ha (1) haggis (1) haka (1) hemerology (1) henotheism (1) hombre (1) horripilate (1) horses for courses (1) hostis humani generis (1) hummel (1) if anything (1) illeism (1) imbongi (1) imbroglio (1) in silico (1) indyref (1) intuit (1) isogloss (1) jab molassie (1) janissary (1) jingoistic (1) keel over (1) keen (1) kersey (1) knock one over with a feather (1) kyriarchy (1) less-than-stellar (1) listicle (1) live paycheck to paycheck (1) loll (1) long drink of water (1) lorn (1) loss leader (1) lumination (1) mantelletta (1) matchy-matchy (1) medicaster (1) mendacity (1) meo more (1) merlion (1) middling (1) minaudière (1) montage (1) moon shot (1) moonsickle (1) nearest and dearest (1) nene (1) nepoticide (1) nocebo (1) nudge nudge wink wink (1) obtuse (1) oche (1) olive branch (1) omnibus (1) on ice (1) oofy (1) overstuffed (1) pabulum (1) paean (1) pappardelle (1) pave the way (1) percussive maintenance (1) philematology (1) pie in the sky (1) pingo (1) platitudinous (1) pomerium (1) pornocracy (1) poteen (1) praziquantel (1) printer (1) pukka (1) putter (1) quacksalver (1) rainbows and unicorns (1) ratfink (1) ratiocination (1) reinvent the wheel (1) retrench (1) retroussé (1) rhubarb (1) ruff (1) rupee (1) saleable (1) saloop (1) sarpanch (1) sassywood (1) sawpit (1) scabrous (1) scene-stealing (1) schlep (1) scree (1) scruple (1) serac (1) shambolic (1) shenanigans (1) shiver my timbers (1) shock and awe (1) shoot one's cuffs (1) sinistromanual (1) skitter (1) soft-spoken (1) songcraft (1) spendthrift (1) split infinitive (1) sprachbund (1) squeeze box (1) stochastically (1) stronghold (1) subspecies (1) sudorific (1) sully (1) surrey (1) swank (1) swarf (1) swingeing (1) sylvan (1) syndicate (1) talking head (1) tarn (1) telemark (1) tertiary (1) thole (1) tickety-boo (1) trickle truth (1) trilemma (1) trope (1) trypophobia (1) underbelly (1) unguligrade (1) ununennium (1) upcycle (1) vigesimal (1) vog (1) volition (1) wan (1) whatchamacallit (1) whopping (1) wide of the mark (1) wigwag (1) windsucker (1) wordster (1) worshipful (1) wrest (1) wurley (1) yeasayer (1)