Do you mean Blue Throated Macaw or a Blue Headed Macaw? I don't think the Blue Headed Macaw is available in the pet trade.
I think both the Red Fronts and the Blue Throats are really noisy birds. I also think the Blue Throats are a very, very "hot" bird and really aren't the bird that the parrot world thinks they are. I thought it was just my Blue Throat, but I worked with many Blue Throats at Steve Martin's workshops and watched lots of other trainers working them. They were a challenge for most people. Just too darned intense and fast. You had to be really, really quick with them or they would get frustrated and could get aggressive in their frustration.
I taught one Blue Throat to color discriminate in about three days. He didn't even have the beginnings of a retrieve when I started. He had to learn to pick up a red disc and put it in the cup on his right when two empty cups were presented. Then he had to learn to pick up a blue disc and put it in the cup on his left. Then he had to learn to notice that the disc colors were coming randomly and put them in their proper cup. It's not an easy behavior to teach--there are so many steps to get to the final behavior and so many places they can make an error. He was such an intense bird to work with, I had to teach him a behavior to do when my trainer and I were discussing the session or he would just bite me in frustration.
I find Scarlets a very mellow bird when compared to a Blue Throat--and a lot quieter. That's not how Blue Throats are presented to the parrot world, though. There is nothing laid back about a Blue Throat.
Janet
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> Wow! You and Hugh have siblings! I think that between the two of you came my love for the species. I love the Blue Fronts too but decided long ago that I have too dusty an atmosphere to house any of the Macaws. Two Cockatoos and three greys make for a very dusty home. Now, if I were to become independently wealthy....well, that would be another story!
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