I was browsing the observations to identify and saw a picture of two birds flying, labeled “Blue-and-yellow Macaw”. I know the species, since a friend of mine had one as a pet in Charlotte, so I clicked on it, compared the picture to all species of Ara, and agreed. The page shows the species as endangered (by CITES, not IUCN) and the location is therefore obscured.
If someone observed a blue-and-yellow macaw in the wild in a place where it has been introduced as a pet, outside the native range, would the page show it as both endangered and introduced, or what?
Observations of the species are only obscured in South America and in Panama, according to the conservation statuses. I checked other observations of this species outside that region and they were not obscured and were only tagged as introduced.
Perhaps the user decided to obscure that particular observation? (Or set it to private, as I don’t see any observation of this species in Charlotte, North Carolina on the map)
Edit: Also, to check, are we talking about Ara ararauna? I’m not that familiar with English common names
It is Ara ararauna, and IIRR it’s in Ecuador. As far as I could tell, the observer set the location to public, and iNat obscured it because it’s endangered.
I doubt that macaw could survive a year outdoors in North Carolina; we get snow sometimes. Maybe in southern Florida.
