Breeding success of rare Lear’s Macaw in Qatar
August 20, 2006 — Filed in: Conservation
Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation (AWWP)Press release
On the 14th, July 2006, the Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation (AWWP), owned by HE Sheikh Saoud Bin Mohammad Bin Ali Al-Thani, successfully hatched their first Lear’s Macaw (Anodorhynchus leari) chick. AWWP keeps four pairs of Lear’s Macaws, which have been on loan from the Brazilian Government since 2004. The species has proven challenging to breed in captivity and until this most recent hatching, the species had not officially been successfully bred since 1984. The breeding pair at AWWP laid a clutch of three eggs, two of which were fertile. The fertile egg which did not hatch died very early in development and could only be determined as being fertile during an egg necropsy.
