Hyacinth Macaw by auntietk

Photography • Animals • posted on Jul 02, 2014

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Another shot from Cougar Mountain Zoo in Issaquah. I've just learned that hyacinth macaws are the largest parrot in the world ... more than three feet long! That's one big bird! .................. Yesterday I posted an image in my seemingly never-ending "Light & Glass" series, and Andrea suggested I create an album. Great idea! So I spent most of the day today working on albums, and have completed the one for Light and Glass, and have mostly completed one on Reflections. I've got a few more in the works that I've just started. I don't know if they'll all stay, but I'm working on it! I'm not sure if all this is interesting to anyone but me. Nevertheless, there they are! :)

Comments (25)

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Chipka

1:40AM | Wed, 02 July 2014

There's so much going on in this image and I love every bit of it; there's light and color, there are textures and shapes and all sorts of interesting, fun things, and what strikes me the most is the various details: the beak and its texture and how it's so different from the feathers, and the feathers themselves differ, and for all that's going on in this shot, it's all unified. This looks to be one smart bird too: did you know that scientists have recently learned that the term "bird brain" is probably quite inaccurate since there's more than goes on in a bird's brain that previously thought? The corvids are showing us that, since they seem to possess "culture" in that they teach their offspring various things that have nothing to do with survival (oh, and they ski and snowboard too.) Ah...birds! This is a stunning shot! Oh, and albums...I suspect those are fun to do, though I have yet to do one. I always think of albums as the digital art version of those mix tapes that were so popular back in the days when we were able to put all sorts of unrelated songs on a single cassette tape and walk around with a Sony Walkman, being oh-so-cool.

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jayfar

2:02AM | Wed, 02 July 2014

A beautiful portrait Tara.

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kgb224

2:09AM | Wed, 02 July 2014

Amazing capture Tara. God bless.

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Faemike55

2:12AM | Wed, 02 July 2014

Fabulous portrait of this beautiful bird

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Juliette.Gribnau

2:58AM | Wed, 02 July 2014

wonderful bird; superb captured

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helanker

4:30AM | Wed, 02 July 2014

What a marvellous portrait. It is smiling, I think :-) I never got this Album functio into me, even though I have severel.... I havent found out how to even view what I have in them, so I have never completed with all the old stuff..

alanwilliams

5:02AM | Wed, 02 July 2014

oh! a magical face so well captured

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FredNunes

5:04AM | Wed, 02 July 2014

Awesome. Love the colors and details and light!

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dwarvenkind

5:26AM | Wed, 02 July 2014

Great shot.

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Krittermom

5:52AM | Wed, 02 July 2014

Now that's a happy bird. He is smiling for his picture. Chip is correct about the studies on birds. They now know that some birds like crows and parrots will design tools to help them get food. Until the last 10 years or do it was Thought that only apes and monkeys could do this. Studies see being done on several species to learn more about their intelligence. Turns out that many animals have a much greater level of cognitive function as well as emotion. Got to wonder. If it took humans this long to figure this out..... Who is "Just a dumb animal "? This is a beautiful picture. I love the light and color.

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kenmo

7:11AM | Wed, 02 July 2014

Wow.....simply amazing....

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durleybeachbum

10:21AM | Wed, 02 July 2014

Don't get a finger in there! although they can be very gentle if they like you a lot. It is a superb portrait, and makes me laugh. Brilliant news about the albums, I shall spend a wet evening one day looking at them!

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RodS

10:54AM | Wed, 02 July 2014

That is a big bird! And I must say he looks quite pleased with this lovely portrait you took of him, Tara! I've thought about the album thing - I guess I could have an album for the T.N.A. story....

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drifterlee

1:28PM | Wed, 02 July 2014

Gorgeous bird!!

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ichtvan

2:35PM | Wed, 02 July 2014

Awesome capture !!!

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MrsRatbag

3:45PM | Wed, 02 July 2014

I can never tell the hyacinth macaws apart, so I don't know if you got Manduvi, Payaso or Cocha, but whichever of them you captured here she's lovely. They do love attention, don't they? They'll flirt and preen and run through all their tricks for as long as you care to stand there and talk to them. They are so pretty!

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CavalierLady

4:34PM | Wed, 02 July 2014

How marvelous he looks! I loved seeing one in person at the zoo. Brilliant portrait!

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NightGallery

7:56PM | Wed, 02 July 2014

Love it so much. I couldnt get this close in real life. Such wonderful detail in those feathers and that great face. Beautiful shot!

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wysiwig

12:11AM | Thu, 03 July 2014

Wow, look at the schnoz on that guy! What a terrific close up portrait. The details are superb. I have some new neighbors and they have a Scarlet Macaw. It likes to whistle at people as they walk by.

whaleman

10:49PM | Thu, 03 July 2014

That color just blows me away!

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dragonmuse

12:58AM | Fri, 04 July 2014

Really beautiful portrait of this fine bird. My experiences with parrots are that they can be very affectionate and are highly intelligent. Each i have met have very distinct personalities.

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dochtersions

11:15AM | Sat, 05 July 2014

It's an impressing bird, and capture, Tara. It looks like it wants to tell you something, and on the same time it has a chuckle. So clever of you to make these albums a very good idea of Andrea. I have the intense to go visit your albums, seems interesting, and thanks for mentioning it, my friend; this must have been a lot of work maybe, huh?.

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