The great green macaw is also struggling in the wild in central America, with fewer than 25 breeding pairs in Costa Rica, and only about 40 birds in Ecuador.

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Each day, when the first rays of sun warm its ochre walls, the doline comes alive with the sounds of the red-green macaw, as formations of these exotically-plumaged parrots dive and wheel below the lip, periodically alighting en masse to bicker, preen and survey their domain.

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