Kilma Manso (standing) taking details from a farmer (on the cart) about his crop damage by Lear’s Macaws


Photograph Steve Brookes


When I returned from Brazil I contacted Les Rance and told him of the need for more funding to assist the survival of this macaw. There are several strands to its conservation projects -- and all of them are costly.


was proof that PS members really are helping to aid the survival of one of the world’s most vulnerable parrots -- and also one of the most extraordinarily beautiful -- and almost unique in its habitat and habits! In my next article I will describe the various conservation projects and how the Parrot Society’s money will be spent.


44 BIRD SCENE


Edward Lear


Why was it named after Edward Lear? By the time he was only 21 Lear had published a large folio on the parrot family -- the first series of plates devoted to a single family of birds. Although he is better known as the author of such delightful “nonsense” poems as the Owl and the Pussycat, he was an artist of exceptional talent. His 79 plates of birds and animals in the menagerie of the 13th Earl of Derby, the last published in 1850, brought him even greater fame. When a macaw new to science was described in 1856, Lear was at the height of his artistic fame, and had even given drawing lessons to Queen Victoria.


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