The Blue-throated Macaw - Ara glaucogularis - is Endemic to a small area of north-central Boliva which is known as Los Llanos de moxas. This striking Macaw has vivid colours with turquoise-blue wings and tail, and bright yellow underparts and blue undertail coverts. The throat is blue and continuous with its blue cheeks. It has a large black bill. Bare skin at the base of the beak is pink and pale bare skin on the sides of the face is partly covered with lines of small dark blue feathers. The alarm call is loud and raucous. 

Food consists of ripe and nearly ripe fruits, including palm fruits, seeds and leaves.
 

This Macaw is not a forest dwelling bird, it lives in the savanna's of Bolivia, nesting in Palm Islands in the sananna's. The birds nest in tree hollows created in dead palm trunks, rotten knot-holes and dead limbs of trees. The breeding season is from August to November, with 2 to 3 eggs laid. There is some evidence that parents maintain the third chick of a clutch with minimal food as an insurance against the loss of the older dominant chicks. If disaster should befall the larger chick the parent can switch to feeding the youngest and it will exhibit a constant growth curve from the day of active feeding. It is this physiological response that enables researchers to raise the third chick of a clutch in captivity and then return them to the wild nests when they are nearing fledge. Blue-throated Macaws are early nesters and utilize these rare resources of nest holes before the other macaws are in breeding condition.

Several breeding projects and conservation schemes in zoos have now been set up to save these beautiful birds. Other projects have been started to protect the remaining wild population, but at present numbers are still decreasing.