| Endangered Species: Blue and Gold Macaw |
Christiansburg Elementary School
Submitted by: Pooh, Grade 5
Christiansburg, Virginia, USA
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| Blue and Gold Macaw
photographer unknown |
Why Study This Topic?
My animal is from the
South American Rainforest. It's the Blue and Gold macaw. I want to learn
about my animal. This is what I want to know. I'd like to know how
it got endangered, where it lives, what it looks like, what it eats, and
how long it lives.
I'd also want to know the reason
this bird gets ill, how many babies it has. My interest in this animal
is that I could help it survive by keeping it safe, even knowing
they are endangered.
What Was Already Known
What I know about my animal is they make their
nest in tree holes and rock holes to hide themselves from their enemies.
They live in the South American Rainforest. The Blue and Gold macaw's predators
are people, boa constrictors and other snakes. The Blue and Gold macaw
is about 30 inches and the highest weight is about 10 pounds, and it eats
fruit, seeds, nuts and plants.
The reason they are endangered
is because they are caught and are being trained and they are not familiar
with not being in their environment, so they die.
Search for Information
I searched my animal inside the encyclopedia and
on the computer in these places:
www.search. com, Yahoolagins, and www.South America.com. I went
to the public library, and the school library have looked. I have looked
in other books that I have at home. This is what I found about my animal.
My animal eats nuts, plants, seeds, and fruit.
It drinks river water, makes homes in tree holes. That's about it.
Description of Plant or Animal
The size of my animal is 30 inches long, and it's
very colorful. It's colors can be red, green, blue, and gold. That is why
it's called the Blue and Gold macaw.
This animal weighs about 10 pounds. Its
maximum weight is about 20 pounds. It's bird shape. It has sharp
claws so it can balance on tree branches.
Habitat
My animal eats lots of things. It eats nuts, plants,
seeds, and fruit. It only drinks river water because it lives in
the South American Rainforest. It builds nests in tree holes or rock holes
for homes to hide itself from predators. They need lots of room for their
family to live because they are very big birds about 30 in long.
Adaptations
My animal is the Blue and Gold macaw and it has some
enemies (predators). They are mainly people and snakes, because snakes
eat them and people take them away from their habitat and it is habitat
and it's hard for them to live. They don't have any prey, because they
only eat other things like plants, seeds, fruit, and nuts.
Reasons for Endangered
It is endangered because people take them away from
their habitat and they die. Snakes eat them and people knock down trees
and pollute their habitat and their water. My animal is trying to work
itself out of being endangered. If they have 10 babies each month
they would not be endangered any more.
Restoration
I would help by picking up all the
trash in the water and not let the bird huters come in or the people who
cut down trees or they will go to jail or prison. I would take most of
the snakes out of the forest and put them in zoos. They have a reason to
live and I would do anything to make it happen.
What Was Learned
The Blue and Gold macaw is not all blue and gold
-- it can be different colors too. Its forehead can be dark blue. Its back
and feathered tail are also blue. It has a big beak so that it can eat
nuts, seeds, plants, and fruits.
It can get 34 inches long. Its size counts
on how old it is for the size. It makes its nest in high places in tree
holes they have their children in their nest yhy can have up to 10 eggs
at a time. Sometimes when the babies are older they move away into the
Rainforest and only one will stay at the nest they were born in.
Conclusions From Research
I thought it was a parrot but it really isn't. Its only related
to the parrot. Their are a lot of macaws simalar to the Blue and Gold macaw.
All macaws are loud, their is only a couple things dirrerent about them
they are their sizes is different and the color is different. Wile I was
doing my reaserch I found out a lot about the macaw.
Bilbliography
www.SouthAmerican.com
www.search.com
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