This may not win the popularity vote. But in my opinion Hybrid Macaws , perhaps more than any other hybrid parrot type are such grotesque distortions of Nature's beauty, however charming the individual parrots that are involved in the process may be.
I love macaws as they are . There can't be more beautiful and magnificent birds than the Scarlet, Hyacinth, Blue and Yellow, Red and Green and the Blue throated Macaw, probably in that order!
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Hybrids do happenn in many species. Even species that are far removed , like what happened in Hawaii, the whaolphin (A wholphin is an extremely rare cetacean hybrid born from a mating of a female common bottlenose dolphin with a male false killer whale) also blue whales , and sperm whales have bred with a lot of species,
I also do not condone trying to breed hybrids.
But this thread is called love will find a way.
I think it is a beautiful story. The owner wasnt trying to set up a breeding.
I'm glad their bond will be respected. Love dies findva way. We hav call heard of freindsh love between things deer and bunnies, or a tortoise and a hippo. Love is a powerful force.
Yes sweet story, but not something that I would recommend and clearly something that organization should not have allowed by placing them together.
Yes, Hybrids do occur in nature. But, only near the edges of species' natural ranges or areas where as a result of natural disasters opportunities for reproduction becomes serious limited.
As the natural ranges of Parrots become ever less populated, there becomes a need to 'restock' those natural ranges... As the number of Hybrids continue to raise, the number of specific species reduce that opportunities to provide Parrots for those ranges...
Again, sweet, but!?!?
o don't provide them with a nest box, they don't live in the same cage, but when they are out together they do hook up....
o don't provide them with a nest box, they don't live in the same cage, but when they are out together they do hook up....
They didn't give nesting box to the 2 macaws either. They MADE their own nesting box LOL It is a sweet love story. If anyone is ever in Northern Virginia, it is worth the visit to them. They are great people who care about their flock and who takes them.