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    The Lesser Antillean macaw was a parrot native to the Guadeloupe islands, known from historical accounts and illustrations from the 17th-18th centuries as having a red body and wings with blue and yellow feathers, and a long red tail. While once abundant in Guadeloupe, it had become rare by 1760 and was soon driven to extinction, likely due to disease and overhunting. A bone fragment found on Marie-Galante dated to before human arrival, confirming the existence of a similarly sized macaw.

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    The Lesser Antillean macaw was a parrot native to the Guadeloupe islands, known from historical accounts and illustrations from the 17th-18th centuries as having a red body and wings with blue and yellow feathers, and a long red tail. While once abundant in Guadeloupe, it had become rare by 1760 and was soon driven to extinction, likely due to disease and overhunting. A bone fragment found on Marie-Galante dated to before human arrival, confirming the existence of a similarly sized macaw.

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    Parrot Guadeloupe Macaw Austin Hobart Clark Species Description Phalanx Bone Marie-Galante Lesser Antillean

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    The Lesser Antillean macaw was a parrot native to the Guadeloupe islands, known from historical accounts and illustrations from the 17th-18th centuries as having a red body and wings with blue and yellow feathers, and a long red tail. While once abundant in Guadeloupe, it had become rare by 1760 and was soon driven to extinction, likely due to disease and overhunting. A bone fragment found on Marie-Galante dated to before human arrival, confirming the existence of a similarly sized macaw.

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    The Lesser Antillean macaw

    The Lesser Antillean macaw (Ara guadeloupensis) was a parrot of the Guadeloupe islands.
    There are no conserved specimens, but this macaw is known from several contemporary
    accounts, and the bird is the subject of some illustrations. Austin Hobart Clark made a species
    description based on these accounts in 1905. A phalanx bone from the island of Marie-
    Galanteconfirmed the existence of a similar-sized macaw predating the arrival of humans, and
    was correlated with the Lesser Antillean macaw in 2015. According to contemporary descriptions,
    the body was red, the wings were red, blue and yellow, and the solid red tail feathers were
    between 38 and 51 cm (15 and 20 in) long; apart from the tail feathers and its smaller size, this
    description matches the scarlet macaw. These accounts also said that it ate fruit (including the
    poisonous manchineel), nested in trees and laid two eggs once or twice a year. Although it was
    said to be abundant in Guadeloupe, by 1760 it was becoming rare and was soon eradicated,
    probably by disease and hunting.

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