So far, so good. But here’s the kicker: The toucan is the macaw’s main predator. Besides feeding on the whole seeds of the manduvi, the toucan also has a big appetite for macaw eggs.

The hyacinth macaw is an endangered bird in central Brazil. It has a reputation for being picky when it comes to choosing a home: it lives almost exclusively in natural hollows in manduvi trees, which ...

The Hyacinth Macaw has a 16.78% chance of applying the Wiltproof mutation to fruits every 8.26 minutes. At the time of writing, the Hyacinth Macaw is the only way to obtain the Wiltproof mutation ...

A hot June day in the Pantanal, Brazil. It's the dry season. Although this is the world’s largest tropical wetland, the grass is now yellow, and there’s hardly any water to be seen. The few ponds that ...

Most birds nest in hollows or abandoned toucan nests of manduvi trees. In bizarre relationship, hyacinth macaws depend on toco toucans to disperse seeds for manduvi trees, but the toucans eat more ...

After humans, the toco toucan is the major predator of endangered hyacinth macaws, responsible for 53 percent of the eggs and hatchlings taken from the holes in manduvi trees, where the macaws ...