what animal is this?
A macaw native to Brazil.
Spix's macaw
Spix's macaw ("Cyanopsitta spixii"), also known as the little blue macaw, was a macaw native to Brazil.
what is a ruff? Medium-sized wading bird. where is it found? Marshes and wet meadows across northern Eurasia. what does it eat? Beetles, flies, crustaceans, spiders, etc. do they have a relationship with humans? Yes, formerly trapped for food in England. are there any efforts being made to conserve them? No, classified as "least concern". what do you mean classified as "least concern"? is there a list for this? It didn't approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List. what does iucn stand for? International Union for Conservation of Nature when was it established? 5 October 1948 who are their members? States, government agencies, international NGOs, etc., who is the secretariat? UNANSWERABLE who provides their funding? Official Development Assistance budgets of bilateral and multilateral agencies. what views do critics have? Put the needs of nature above those of humans, disregarding economic considerations and the interests of indigenous peoples and other traditional users of the land. do they have any publications? Yes can you please tell me which species are nearly extinct as per the list? Spix's macaw
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Spix's macaw [SEP] Introduction
Spix's macaw ("Cyanopsitta spixii"), also known as the little blue macaw, was a macaw native to Brazil. It is a member of tribe Arini in the subfamily Arinae (Neotropical parrots), part of the family Psittacidae (the true parrots). It was first described by German naturalist Georg Marcgrave, when he was working in the State of Pernambuco, Brazil in 1638 and it is named for German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix, who collected a specimen in 1819 on the bank of the Rio São Francisco in northeast Bahia in Brazil. The bird is a medium-size parrot weighing about , smaller than most of the large macaws.