Pellet diet specifically formulated for your Macaw is recommended in order to meet their recommended dietary nutrition. This also prevents the bird from becoming too picky. Enriched seed mixtures designed for your Macaw are also great as long as your Macaw isn't only eating his favorite seeds and discarding the rest. To supply calcium, your Macaw should have a Cuttlebone in it's cage at all times.

Although pellets can provide your Macaw with the ideal nutrition, you should also be sure to include variety in your Macaw's diet. Giving your Macaw a variety of foods will inspire them to eat. Macaws love fruits, nuts, beans, legumes, grains and vegetables(no avocado). You will enjoy seeing them flurry excitedly to their dish at each feeding time.

Your Macaw should have water readily available at all times.

Macaw droppings should be removed daily and the bottom of the Cage disinfected at least weekly.

Use Gravel Paper already cut to size and made especially for bird cages. This is the cleanest and easiest low maintenance way to go. It will absorb spilled water and droppings.

Once a month you'll want to disinfect the walls of the cage to protect your Macaw's health. The Water Dispenser and Feeder Bowl should be rinsed out daily and disinfected weekly. This helps protect against harmful bacteria. Cage Cleaners disinfect and dissolve hard dried-up droppings.

Trim your Macaw's nails and beak. Wing clipping is also recommended if you want to limit or eliminate the bird's flying abilities. If you do not feel comfortable trimming or clipping, an avian veterinarian or breeder will do it for a small fee.

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Macaws are playful and active, and have an exuberant peronality to go along with their size. This makes them a very challenging pet. They are also very affectionate, and in turn require a good deal of time and attention from their owners to be happy.

Macaws are noisy. Their vocalizations can be loud and they can screech extrememly loudly! They do have a fairly good capability to mimic speech, although probably not as clearly as Amazons and African greys.

Macaws need a large, strong cage. Mini macaws can be kept in a cage sized for Amazons (24"x36"x48"). However, the larger macaws need a cage at least 36"x48"x60" and the cage must be strong enough to withstand their significant beak strength.

A wide variety of wooden toys or plain untreated chunks of wood to chew on should be provided. Toys meant to be taken apart to get at a treat are also a good choice, as are hanging toys and toys to climb on as long as they are safe -- see "Bird Toy Safety" for tips on choosing appropriate toys.

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Macaws are small to large, often colourful New World parrots. Of the many different Psittacidae (true parrots) genera, six are classified as macaws: Ara, Anodorhynchus, Cyanopsitta, Primolius, Orthopsittaca, and Diopsittaca. Previously, the members of the genus Primolius were placed in Propyrrhura, but the former is correct as per ICZN rules.[1] Macaws are native to Mexico, Central America, South America, and formerly the Caribbean. Most species are associated with forest, especially rainforest, but others prefer woodland or savanna-like habitats.

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