Editing Lear's macaw (section)

==Taxonomy==

Lear's macaw was named after the famous poet, [[Edward Lear]], who was also an accomplished artist. In his teens in the early 1830s, Lear published a book of drawings and paintings of live parrots in zoos and collections, ''[[Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots]]''. One of his paintings in his book strongly resembles this species,<ref name=ABC2020>{{cite web |title=Lear's Macaw |url=https://abcbirds.org/bird/lears-macaw/ |date=20 November 2020 |website=Bird of the Week |publisher=American Bird Conservancy |language=en |access-date=11 October 2021}}</ref><ref name=arkive>{{cite web|title=Lear's macaw (''Anodorhynchus leari'')|url=http://www.arkive.org/lears-macaw/anodorhynchus-leari/|work=WildScreen|publisher=Arkive|access-date=27 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227100535/http://www.arkive.org/lears-macaw/anodorhynchus-leari/|archive-date=2012-12-27|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=seaworld>{{cite web|title=Lear's macaw|url=http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/animal-bytes/animalia/eumetazoa/coelomates/deuterostomes/chordata/craniata/aves/psittaciformes/lears-macaw.htm|work=SeaWorld/Busch Gardens|publisher=Animal Bytes|access-date=27 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129221334/http://seaworld.org/animal-info/animal-bytes/animalia/eumetazoa/coelomates/deuterostomes/chordata/craniata/aves/psittaciformes/lears-macaw.htm|archive-date=29 November 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="theparrotsocietyuk.org">{{cite web|url=https://theparrotsocietyuk.org/site/index.php/conservation/projects/the-lears-macaw/ |title=The Lear's Macaw |last=Pittman |first=Tony |date=2000 |website=Parrots - Parrot Conservation - Breeding |publisher=The Parrot Society UK |accessdate=8 October 2021}}</ref> and although at the time he titled the work as '[[hyacinth macaw]]' — a larger, darker species with a differently shaped patch of yellow skin adjacent to the base of the bill, which it closely resembles — not everyone agreed, and a quarter century later, in 1856, the illustration was given a [[species description]] by the French [[ornithologist]] and nephew of Emperor Napoleon, Prince [[Charles Lucien Bonaparte]], who chose to commemorate the poet in the [[Specific name (zoology)|specific name]]. Most authorities, however, were unconvinced of the distinctness of the new [[taxon]]. The rarely seen bird was not considered a distinct species until 1978, when German-born, Brazilian-naturalised ornithologist [[Helmut Sick]] finally located the wild population.<ref name=ABC2020/><ref name=arkive/><ref name="theparrotsocietyuk.org"/><ref>{{cite book |last=Sick |first=Helmut |editor-last=Pasquier |editor-first=RF |year=1981 |chapter=About the Blue Macaws Especially the Lear's Macaw |pages=439–44 |title=Conservation of New World Parrots ICBP Parrot Working Group Meeting (Technical Publication 1) |publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press |publication-date=1981 |location=St. Lucia |isbn=9781199061096}}</ref>

[[File:Anodorhynchus leari by Edward Lear.jpg|upright|right|thumb|Illustration by [[Edward Lear]] (1812–88) first published in his book ''[[Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots]]'' in 1832<ref>{{cite web|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DLDecArts/DLDecArts-idx?id=DLDecArts.LearParrots |title=Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae, or Parrots |publisher=Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture|access-date=2010-04-08}}</ref>]]