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GOLDEN-COLLARED MACAW Primolius auricollis
Macaws are large parrots characterised by their bare white facial skin. Not all macaws are like the big red birds often exhibited in zoos though, some, like the Golden-collared, are much smaller and less brightly-coloured. These macaws are sociable birds, living in faithful pairs within small flocks, and are one of the highlights of a trip up into the Paraguayan Pantanal where they remain common.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE3902PH) Adult, Departamento Alto Paraguay (Arne Lesterhuis undated).
FIGURE 2 - (FPAVE2209PH) Pair at dusk going to roost, Bahía Negra (Paul Smith September 2006).
FIGURE 3 - (FPAVE2210PH) Adult, location unknown (Alberto Esquivel undated).
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Primolius auricollis
1 (FPAVE2211RE) calls  recorded Punto Alto, Departamento Alto Paraguay (Myriam Velázquez January 2003).
Click the link to hear the call. Longer versions of this call can be downloaded from the Paraguay page of our partner website Xeno-Canto - the largest collection of freely downloadable Neotropical bird calls available online.