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The final version of the extinct macaw species panoply (first version here: [link] ). Models at the same scale. Maps from Wikipedia.Prize received
Remarcable work for the Contest held by
Edit: fixed errors in the text
A version in Spanish here: [link]
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Very much, and unfortunately charts like this gonna be more common and with more species in the next years..
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Hello and this is a wonderfully informative piece!Β It's very tragic about those extinct macaws.Β I really hope we don't lose many more species from here on.
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Hi! Thank you! Indeed, may those lost macaws be a lesson to us, helping to preserve what's still around.
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Wonderful! If you don't mind I may use this as reference for a series I am going to do of extinct macaw portraits.
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I'm glad you like it! Oh, no problem, feel free to use it as reference!
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Thank you very much!
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BTW, if you're going to do an Ara atwoodi, I think it's better my newer picture as reference than the one depicted in this composition. Here's it, I believe is more accurate, based on the related species:
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Ah, thank you very much! That does resemble the Ara genus more than the previous drawing. I intend to do most, if not all, extinct parrots over time, so I am sure I will be drawing that one soon
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"White man, the jackass."
I feel so sorry for the parrots...
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This is wonderful, and rather sad. They are so beautiful!
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So sad they're gone
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This makes me sad. Such gorgeous birds we never get to see alive 
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And there were much more that we'll probably never know! Thank you very much for the comment!
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that's terrible! hurry up with the cloning technology!
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The bad about this is that even if we could bring them back through cloning, we lack specimens of all but two of them
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figures... poor parrots
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If only we could go back in time and save them!!
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Surely. But I hope at least some more evidence of their characteristics would be unveiled some day through some long-lost document.
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Damn now I really want to go to The Ara Project in Costa Rica to do some research for the conservation of the great green and the scarlat macaw
(Btw, didn't know in what folder to fav it, so it is in Earth's beauty now, although it is not so 'beautiful' that these macaws are extinct... but I hope you understand my point)
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I agree about the points in how stupid the human being is!
No problem, I understand you. They are a kind of lost, forgotten beauty, relics that we are deprived to appreciate their colors now...
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Yeah, although one individual can not really be blamed, I respect the ones that acknowledge this problem.
I didn't even realize that there were so many macaw species. Thanks for sharing this
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It's so sad how much humans mess up the environment. When will we EVER learn?!?!
I love your illustration though!! Way to do these species proper respect!!
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Maybe we will never learn, we'll only stop to reflect on the subject when its too late to ourselves.
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I didn't know about these Macaw species.
It's sad that they no longer thrive today... do humans even care about the creatures that live on earth or does our species only care about self preservation, money, and being superior to all?
People should read stuff like this more often. Thank you for posting such an informative and beautiful piece of art
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I'm so glad you like it and find it useful! It's bad that such amazing creatures are so poorly know outside the specialized researchers. Knowing about their fate would help to prevent the living species to follow a similar path.
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Very nice! Your parrot anatomy is impressive. The only thing that I see wrong is the lesser wing coverts of the Montserrat, which seem kind of pointy rather than the typical parrot-feather roundness, and that some of them seem to have very small eyes. But its overall super well done and very informative. I love the cuban red macaw!
I always wished I was alive at Audubon's time, so I could have the job of documenting parrot species through art. My two favorite things combined.
So sad about what we've done to the parrot population though. Through the ages we've shot them, bludgeoned them, fed them wine to entertain us, fed them to lions to entertain us, turned them into hats, ate them, trapped them, and overall cut down their population by stunning amounts for insignificant petty reasons. Why can't we leave anything alone?
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Thank you very much! Those drawings are a bit ''outdated'', since I gathered more information, and some of them are just redraws from older drawings by other artists, just adapted to this work.
Ah, I also love drawing psittacids, you can go very far with their forms and colors. By the way I've just done a new drawing on Dominican Macaw.
The human being is so selfish, he can't bear to know something and didn't owning it. Unfortunately.
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Wonderful information graphic. Only problems I see in it is the large chunk of text which would discourage readers. It's better to form text into paragraphs, as well as divide it into two columns maybe to increase readability.
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Thank you very much for the comment! Really it's so much text, I did it when I had just a few experience in doing composition, but as I'm redrawing some of them, I might do an updated version in the future.
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No problem. Your parrots are amazing
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Anodorhynchus purpurascens is invalid, probably it was just an Hyacinth Macaw from the mainland.
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lol, i had no idea there were so many extinct Macaws! what a pity!
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Sure is! And there were more that became extinct before science finds them.
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i guess so then aye
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This is extremely cool! But also a bit depressing...
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Thank you! Yes, unfortunately...
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Would it be possible if we could put this into the Cenozoic volume of the "Big Encyclopedia of Dead Animals"?
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BTW, I also have done some research and artwork in extinct species on Amazonas genus.
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Pliocene or Pleistocene?
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Pleistocene, recent, Amazona violacea, A. martinica and undescribed species from Montserrat and Turks and Caicos.
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Those'll do nicely for now.
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