Anodorhynchus glaucus — The Life Data

Animalia/Chordata/Aves/Psittaciformes/Psittacidae/Anodorhynchus

At a glance

Occurrence records1

Data sources10

Biological traits15

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections0

Sources10 archives

Databases and archives Anodorhynchus glaucus's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation13 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 records↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗

NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗

IOC World Bird ListIOCbird checklist↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page4 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements1 literature sources15 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF1 records

Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI≈957 Mbp

01Narrative

The glaucous macaw (Anodorhynchus glaucus) is a critically endangered species of large, blue and grey South American parrot, a member of a large group of neotropical parrots known as macaws. This macaw, believed to be extinct, is closely related to Lear's macaw A.leari and the hyacinth macaw A. hyacinthinus. In Guaraní, it is called ' after its vocalizations.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesAVONET

Size & morphology11

Beak depth52.1 mm

Beak length (culmen)69 mm

Beak length (nares)60.6 mm

Beak width30.3 mm

Body mass940 g

Hand-wing index46

Kipp's distance168 mm

Secondary length197 mm

Tail length376 mm

Tarsus length36.1 mm

Wing length362 mm

Diet & foraging2

Trophic levelherbivore

Trophic nicheFrugivore

Habitat & environment2

Migration1.0

Primary lifestyleInsessorial

05DNA & barcodingmolecular

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Anodorhynchus glaucus has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

06Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI

The complete instruction manual Anodorhynchus glaucus carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.

Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is

Genome size≈957 046 712 bp assembly estimate

Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).

BACTERIUM Carsonella ruddii0.00016 Gb

FUNGUS0.04 Gb

INSECT0.25 Gb

THIS GENOME Anodorhynchus glaucus0.96 Gb

HUMAN3.2 Gb

WHEAT17 Gb

FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb

Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers

Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.

Assembly levelScaffold

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type1 records

Museum / vouchered1

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO4 km²

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy100% within 1 km

≤1 km 1

1 georeferenced

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions1 of 1 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Cambridge, US	1

1 institutions · 1 of 1 vouchered records shown